Transilvanian Dark Romanticism

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This is a place dedicated mostly to the study of the vampire myth as appears in the old times.
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The most noble portrait of the vampire was perfected during the XIXth century and is based on the Dark Romanticism aesthetics. In literature, the romantic vampire has all the opposed and paradoxical characteristics of the Romantic hero. That kind of character was the projection of a mental image of it`s author(s) in love with the absolute ideals and living in a world of abstractions and reveries. The primitive forces that turned this kind of character into a predator were opposed both to it`s attributed ancient and noble roots and also to the wisdom and knowledge that an immortal being can achieve during his... un-life.
It was, perhaps, the most vivid expression of the paradox of the human being that founds itself lingering between an animal and an angelic form of life. Before the Romanticism, the vampire was merely a zombie attracted back to life by obscure unnatural powers. After it, the vampire either became an action hero, either the perfect lover, loosing many of attributes and by this falling into derisory.
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One of the places that authors choose to place the home of the vampire was Transilvania and this was not a random choice. Transilvania is also a paradoxical land where the beauty of ruined castles and secretive woods and wild splendid mountains still guard their ancient treasures.In this land the ancient specific tales of wisdom but primitive superstitions seem to leave in harmony in the souls of it`s peaceful inhabitants.
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The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge are both important for us.
Without denying our mortal existence we can be close to the noble and mysterious vampire spirit in our reveries.

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"A king is the mortal when he dreams, a beggar when judges!"
(Holderlin)

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