"El extraño" (1926), de H. P. Lovecraft (Análisis) | Cuentos memorables #4
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2024
- Una reflexión sobre el cuento "El extraño" ("The Outsider"), de H. P. Lovecraft. Este video es parte de la serie "Cuentos memorables". Se recomienda leer el cuento antes de ver el video. ¿Tienen algún cuento favorito de Lovecraft? ¿Qué cuentos han resultado memorables para ustedes?
Contenidos:
00:00 - Introducción
00:55 - Borges sobre Lovecraft
02:59 - El primer párrafo
04:36 - El lugar de la acción
05:23 - El comienzo de la trama
06:08 - Lovecraft o la imposibilidad de describir
08:17 - La revelación y el final
09:26 - Tema: El concepto de lo "normal"
10:42 - Tema: El aislamiento
13:38 - Tema: El autoconocimiento
14:57 - Algunos libros de Lovecraft
16:12 - Conclusiones
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Hola amigo! Thanks to you I have read the first short story by lovecraft and I have loved it. So I'll keep reading the best stories by him. Houellebecq wrote a very interesting essay on lovecraft. Thanks for your amazing review and your advice. I wish you a wonderful day, my friend!
Hola, amiga! 😃 I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed the short story! He has many good ones. I will check out Houellebecq's essay. Thank you so much for bringing it to my attention, and as always, a million thanks for the visit. Have a fantastic day, Marinella!
I could only translate the description using Google Translate so my apologies for missing most of the points. 🥺
My introduction to HP Lovecraft was through my friend and Booktuber ThePurpleBookWyrm. She recommended me a collection after I loved Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation and indeed my favourite stories by Lovecraft became The Colour Out Of Space and The Mountain of Madness. Sometimes his writing was a bit too much for me and it felt a bit repetitive at times? But overall, I liked it. Factoid about me: I tend to avoid horror because I actually scare easy but I like the classic authors, especially existential or psychological horror. My favourite is still Edgar Allan Poe (The Telltale Heart and a cat one (?) are favourites). I also liked Algernon Blackwood a lot (The Willows). Is Frankenstein horror? Probably not but its an all-time favourite of mine. Same with Wuthering Heights and The Phantom of the Opera...they are not "horror" horror but they have that spooky Gothic vibe and I liked them a lot.
A Booktuber said in a video Lovecraft in terms of influence is huge for cosmic horror just as Tolkien was for epic fantasy. And I agree. He was a troubled soul and ultimately I am sorry for him though he probably wouldn't have liked me much (I'm from India hehe). But he created something great.
Didn't know Borges liked Lovecraft. The Borges connection continues...on that note I read the New York trilogy by Paul Auster as it came up on a reddit thread under "Borgesian novel" suggestions. I see why it came up but it didn't come together for me. Other suggestions were The Name of the Rose (wow, totally agree), If On A Winter's Night A Traveller (good book, fantastic start but kind of falls apart?), 2666 (very good book but wouldn't call it Borgesian 🤔).
Anyway I have taken the leap and started The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton - a book Borges actually liked. So far...gulp. 🤣
What does all this have to do with Lovecraft? Nothing, I missed some parts of the video so I rambled using the Borges mention. But one of my friends on Discord is going to purchase the complete Lovecraft works so I might be tempted to try more of his works soon. The thing with Lovecraft is I somehow feel like I appreciate the idea behind his works more than the actual act of reading them...does that ever happen to you with any author?
Happy reading 👋
Thank you for the fantastic comments, Paromita! 😃 I believe you can get subtitles in English by using the auto-translate feature. I click on Settings > CC > Auto-translate. I hope this works!
I totally get what you're saying about liking the idea but the writing not so much, and also about the repetitiveness of Lovecraft. I had a similar experience. I will check out "The Color Out of Space"!
Gothic fiction is excellent. Wuthering Heights is one of my favorite novels. (As Dante Gabriel Rosetti put it--and I am paraphrasing--: the names of the characters and places are English, but the story actually takes place in hell.) Frankenstein is a tour de force, so powerful. More to come on Phantom of the Opera and Edgar Allan Poe.
I love the Borges connections you mention! I'm thankful for your comment on 2666. So many critics have compared Bolaño to Borges, but honestly, I don't see it. I remember one comment in the back cover of The Savage Detectives (another paraphrase): "the novel Borges would have written." Hm... not my Borges, honestly... But you know how it is, in those back covers they'll write anything to sell the book, haha.
Thanks again, and happy reading, my friend!
@@JorgesCorner Thank you, I will use the Auto-Translate feature on some of your other backlist videos I have marked to watch. Being a dinosaur, I didn't know, my apologies. 🤭
I totally agree about Bolano being a nice author but not seeing the Borges connection. Btw I wanted to share two really nice reads with you:
One is Complete Works and Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso. I didn't expect anything while going in and ended up loving it! Soo good.
The other one I'm reading now is Kalpa Imperial by Angelica Gorodischer, translated by Ursula K Le Guin (who is my favourite SF author). So good!
Other fun reads which I enjoyed but I'm not sure what exactly was going on 90% of the time (who am I kidding, make it 100% 🤣):
Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
The Museum of Eterna's Novel by Macedonio Fernández.
I went with the flow but at the end I was like - 🤔 what did I actually read? Maybe rereads are the way with these works. But I read them because Borges and Kafka are often mentioned together in the surrealist conversation and Fernández was Borges' mentor (an acquaintance on a Discord server who is a native speaker has been helping me find these "pre-boom" gems along with your channel).
I am watching some of your backlist videos for which author to try next - Onetti is one that seems interesting but misogyny in stories, there is a limit to how much I can bypass and still appreciate the works, I didn't even like how Marquez wrote women in One Hundred Years Of Solitude or Love In The Time of Cholera 🙈😬. The other option is Roberto Arlt. And yet another option is to find Borgesian connections so authors who were inspired by Borges directly in their fiction.
I also have Blow-Up and Other Stories to read, fingers crossed for that one. I have read two stories, Axolotl and House Taken Over, really liked both.
Happy reading!
No worries! The Auto-translate feature is a hidden gem. When I discovered it, it changed my life. 😃
I've seen the name of Monterroso all over the place, but I have never read anything by him, so thank you for the recommendation! I've heard of Gorodischer, of course, but haven't read her either, I'm ashamed to admit.
Kafka's collection of stories is a mixed bag, but I enjoyed most of it, though I think Kafka is one of those authors one has to keep reading (maybe like Beckett, and some would say even like Borges, haha). More to come on Kafka too! Macedonio... yes, I know exactly what you mean.
Onetti learned a lot from Arlt, so it would be nice to read the latter first, but I must say that Arlt is quite... "untidy" is a word that comes to mind. I love him, but he can be quite puzzling. Super influential, but messy. Like some of Dostoevsky.
Good luck with Cortázar! There are some stories in that collection that are not really his best, but the ones you mention plus "Continuity of Parks" and "The Night Face Up" are masterpieces. "End of the Game" is a personal favorite of mine that not many people talk about.
Happy reading, my friend!
@@JorgesCorner Hello again 👋 After more or less completing my "sampling" phase of Spanish/Latin American lit reading project for now, I found Monterroso is in the must-read category for me after Borges. He really had fun with the short story format and I felt enriched as a reader.
Other authors I liked but perhaps didn't love (I also read only one book by each be it a novel or novella or short story collection, truly a sampling, just to decide what I want to focus on and a lot of it was "non-magical realism" because I don't really follow magical realism 🤭) - Adolfo Bioy Casares (Invention of Morel was nice but I didn't fully "get" it?), Rosario Castellanos, Silvina Ocampo, Macedonio Fernández, Juan Rolfo, Mario Vargas Llosa.
An author I read multiple works by was Julio Cortazar. Rayuela eluded me but I liked many of the short stories. I loved The Continuity of Parks, Night Face Up I think I didn't "get", need to think more. 😁
From this reading project, the author I now want to return to is Borges- short stories and essays. Have a buddy read of some Borges short stories lined up (reread for me) - some of the best ones like Garden, Tlon, Library, Menard's Quixote and Shakespeare's Memory, very happy about that one. 😁
Apart from this, I have some Poe lined up inspired by this Lovecraft video. 😁 Poe is my favorite horror writer so far.
Sorry for rambling (as usual) - I shared this specific reading project progress in case there is some glaring omission or error in how I went about things (the magical realism path I have tried with Marquez, Donoso, Fuentes and failed 😢).
Many thanks for the video discussions and discussions in the comments. 🙏🏽
Hello, Paromita! 😃 I need to prioritize Monterroso, then. You know, I had a weird experience with Bioy. I really liked Morel; then the ones I read after that I didn't get. But I kept giving him a chance, and eventually, without even realizing when it had happened, I came to absolutely love his work. The situation still puzzles me. Silvina Ocampo I still don't get... Those are wonderful stories by Borges, yes. Happy rereading! Magic realism is something I really liked at one point, and today I recognize its importance, but it's not really my cup of tea. I guess it makes sense; it is not prominent where I come from. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, my friend. Have a wonderful day!
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