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William Beckford
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| Title | : | Vathek |
| Author | : | William Beckford |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | : | Pages: 170 pages |
| Published | : | 1999 by Oxford University Press (first published 1786) |
| Categories | : | Gothic. Classics. Horror. Fiction. Fantasy. Literature. 18th Century |
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Vathek, William Beckford, Edited with an introduction by Roger Lonsdale, London: Oxford university press, 1970=1349, 187 PagesVathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Beckford. It was composed in French beginning in 1782, and then translated into English by Reverend Samuel Henley in which form it was first published in 1786 without Beckford's name as An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript, claiming to be translated directly from Arabic.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و سوم ماه می سال 1978 میلادی
واتک یا واثق؛ که با عنوان: «واتک، حکایتی عربی یا داستان خلیفه واتک» نیز شناخته میشود، رمانی گوتیک (داستانهای پر از دلهره، افسون و فریب، ارواح و جادو پیشگان و...)، به قلم توانای «ویلیام بکفورد»، نویسنده ی انگلیسی است؛ رمان در اوایل سال 1782میلادی، به زبان فرانسه نوشته شده، و بعدها توسط «ساموئل هنلی» به انگلیسی ترجمه شده است؛
چکیده داستان: خلیفه واتک (واثق)، از نواده های هارون الرشید است؛ مادرش کاتاریس، ساحره ای یونانی ست؛ فساد و افزون طلبی، و میل شدید او، به علوم ممنوعه، واتک (واثق) را، بنده ی ابلیس میکند؛ او میخواهد به گنجهای قدرتمداران پیشین (پادشاهان ایران)، در خرابه های ایستاکار (استخر)، دست یابد؛ واتک (واثق)، پنجاه کودک را قربان میکند، تا در نگاه یکی از چشمانش، توان کشتن پدیدار شود، از پایتختش سامارا (سامرا)، سفر خویش را آغاز میکند؛ در طول مسیر، عاشق دختر امیری به نام «نورینهار» میشود، که در ادامه ی سفر، دختر نیز او را همراهی میکند؛ پس از رخدادهای عجیب و پر و پیمان در ایستاکار (استخر)، واتک (واثق) اجازه ی ورود به شبستانهای ابلیس، در دنیای مردگان را پیدا میکند، و در آن دنیای مردگان، به بیهودگی همه ی گنجها، و شگفتیهای همین زمین، و جهان زیرپا، پی میبرد؛ در پایان، واتک (واثق)، و همراهانش در انتظار عذاب ابدی خویش، هستند: جسمشان دست نخورده باقی خواهد ماند، اما قلبشان همیشه در درون و اندرون، خواهد سوخت؛ ا. شربیانی
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| Original Title: | Vathek |
| ISBN: | 0192836560 (ISBN13: 9780192836564) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Vathek, Carathis, Bababalouk, Morakanabad, Nouronihar, Goulchenrouz |
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Some interesting parts, but overall not quite my jam.William Beckford wrote "The History of Caliph Vathek" in French in 1784, but it was first published in an English translation by Samuel Henley in 1786. Widely regarded as one of the seminal works of Gothic literature, this strange, unclassifiable novel recounts its eponymous protagonist's quest for esoteric knowledge and carnal pleasure, a quest which ultimately leads to his damnation. "Vathek" combines exotic descriptions of the Orient with passages of grotesque comedy and a dollop of
This is a weird book which I rather expected to loathe but didnt. Vathek and his evilly motivated mother are loathsome I guess but their moral degeneracy is all part of the fable.Beckfords tale is fantasy writ large. It could almost be an early ancestor of all those Harry Potter volumes. Certainly some of the characters would not be out of place at Hogwarts. Whilst described as a Gothic tale, it is hard to believe that it was written in 1786.I first encountered Beckford, as it were, in Men in
William Beckford, the author of Vathek, led a rather remarkable life so remarkable, in fact, that reviewers and critics are left baffled at how to interpret it other than reading it as a sort of fantastic confabulation of his life. He was born in 1760, son of the two-time Lord Mayor of London; at the tender age of ten years, his father died and left him one of the richest men in the entire country. This allowed him to pursue his interests in art, architecture, and travel, all of which he did on
Vathek, William Beckford, Edited with an introduction by Roger Lonsdale, London: Oxford university press, 1970=1349, 187 PagesVathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Beckford. It was composed in French beginning in 1782, and then translated into English by Reverend Samuel Henley in which form it was first published in 1786 without Beckford's name as An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript, claiming to
This book reminded me a lot of a thousand arabian nights; hard to follow at times, with lots of really vivid/psychedelic descriptions...but it's a lot shorter and less explicit. The main character is pretty worldly king, and he can kill people by looking at them (but only if he's extremely angry). His mom is a necromancer of sorts and they do horrible thing after horrible thing so that he can divine his future/grand destiny or something like that. I liked how the book represented Djinn. My
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