Nemal som to kam inam dať, tak som založil novú tému. Zároveň však táto téma môže slúžiť pre milovníkov predtolkienovskej fantastiky ako miesto, kde sa delia o svoje literárne zážitky.This book, along with its author and some of his equally illustrious contemporaries or near-contemporaries, represents a buried treasure-seam of literature which might immeasurably enrich our currently moribund cultural landscape, if only it were not buried, had not been ruthlessly buried alive in the first instance.
For "buried," read forgotten, marginalized, disqualified. It seems as if, with the arrival of Jane Austen on the literary map, there was a sudden and unanimous consensus reached within the critical fraternity to the effect that socially realistic parlor-dramas and sparkling comedies of manners were not merely the most lofty point to which all writings might aspire, they were the only form of writing that could be considered genuine, serious literature. Thus, at a sweep, all genre fiction and all fantasy were ruled unclean, consigned to the outlying slums and ghettos past the ivory battlements of literary respectability.
There are a few names, it is true, that have somehow survived the purge: Poe. Lovecraft (just). Maybe Bram Stoker, simply based on Dracula's enduring success. Possibly another one or two whose names evade the memory at present, which, if anything, just serves to underline the basic point: Buried. Disqualified. Forgotten.
What about Lord Dunsany, with his perfect little one- or two-page fables? What about Clark Ashton Smith, his opulent prose style, his retirement partly spent in carving pebbles into leering and fantastic demon-heads then throwing them away, perhaps to be found decades later by some stranger, who would surely marvel all their lives? What about Arthur Machen, with The Three Impostors or The Great God Pan, who joined the legendary magic brotherhood, the Golden Dawn; who saw visions of Sion rise above the wind-scoured squares and terraces of Holborn? What of M.P. Shiel, "the gem-encrusted magus," overweight and running from his health through London's twilight streets, wearing a vest of battery-driven lights to alert coachmen and pedestrians to his approaching presence? What about William Hope Hodgson?
Príbuzné témy na fóre sú (táto téma sa už niekoľkokrát preberala):
barbar Conan
H.P.Lovecraft
D&D a Tolkien, poťažmo aký štýl fantasy je DrD
Literární kořeny fantastiky
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* Áno, Gygaxov Keep on the Borderlands pravdepodobne bol inšpirovaný týmto dielom.
Takže po niekoľkých rokoch literárnych zážitkov tu sumarizujem známych autorov predtolkienovskej a mimotolkienovskej fantastiky. [work in progress]
Raní inšpirátori, t.j. pradedovia (19. st.):
Sheridan Le Fanu
E.T.A. Hoffman
Jules Verne
H.C. Andersen
Wilhelm Hauff
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mary Shelley
Učitelia autorov zlatého veku, t.j. dedovia (koniec 19. st. a začiatok 20. st.):
Robert Chambers
Edgar Allan Poe
Ambrose Bierce
Arthur Machen
Lord Dunsany
Algernon Blackwood
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Arthur Conan Doyle
William Hope Hodgson
Bram Stoker
Gustav Meyrink
Guy Maupassant
Autori zlatého veku, t.j. otcovia (ca. 20. až 40. r.):
Frank Bellknap Long
David Lindsay (A Voyage to Arcturus)
Eric Rücker Eddison (The Worm Ouroboros)
C.L. Moore
Henry Kuttner
Leigh Brackett
Otis Adelbert Kline
A. Merritt
Clark Ashton Smith
Robert Ervin Howard
Fritz Leiber
Henry Kuttner
Robert Bloch
August Derleth
Michail Bulgakov
Jorge Louis Borges
Žiaci autorov zlatého veku, t.j. synovia (od ca. 60. r. do súčasnosti):
Michael Moorcock
David Drake
Andrew J. Offutt
Karl Edward Wagner
Piers Anthony
Poul Anderson
Ramsey Campbell
Darrel Schweitzer - Každý z nás je legenda
Charles Saunders - Imaro
Tim Lukeman - Rajan, Koren
David Mason
Victoria Graham
Tanith Lee (raná tvorba)
Jessica Amanda Salmonson - trilógia Tomoe Gozen
Michael Chabon - Gentlemen of the Road
Italo Calvino
Zatiaľ nezaradení a zdroje na najbližšie preskúmanie:
Lovecraftova studie "Hrůza a nadpřirozeno v literatuře"
výběr "Komu se to dostane do rukou"
Carroll (Alenka v Říši divů)
Baum (Čaroděj ze Země Oz)
Petr Pan
Milne (Medvídek Pů)
Wilde (Obraz Doriana Graye)
Leroux (Fantom Opery)
Walter Scott
W.B. Yeats
Abbot (Flatland)
Hilton (Ztracený horizont)
dystopie/utopie
H.G. Wells
Shakespeare?
Jekylla a Hyde
Markheim
Arbes
Čapek
Gulliver
Gargantua a Pantagruel
Cyrano na Mesiace
Barón Prášil