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Chargement... The House On the Borderland (original 1908; édition 1908)par William Hope Hodgson
Information sur l'oeuvreLa Maison au bord du monde par William Hope Hodgson (1908)
   » 22 plus 1,001 BYMRBYD Concensus (409) Books Read in 2014 (1,606) Books Read in 2022 (3,330) Read These Too (131) Best Horror Mega-List (219) Which house? (100) I Could Live There (82) To Read (Prospector) (32) Found manuscripts (12) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  RatGrrrl | Dec 20, 2023 |   “…that strange and terrible journey through space and time.” - was not terrible at all, and for me, it was really boring. Unfortunately, it takes up quite a bit of this book. The author of the manuscript is just having visions, or seeing things, and it really does go on and on. Still it wrapped up well with those odd green wounds! A good, creepy ending to the ‘found’ manuscript! But, still and all, what was in that enormous pit? (  ) Stahl-Ricco | Jun 9, 2023 | William Hope Hodgson was a prolific writer, mainly of horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction, and many of his stories involve adventures at sea. He is most widely remembered for two works, The house on the borderland (1908) being one of them. The house on the borderland has a layered story frame. An introduction to the manuscript precedes the table of contents, followed by chapter 1 describing the discovery of the manuscript. Each of these sections is preceded by a poem, with a footnote saying the second poem was found written in pencil on the fly-leaf of the manuscript. It is the story of two men travelling to an area where they encounter suspicious local. In what appears to be an overgrown garden belonging to a lost estate they discover the manuscript. They read the manuscript aloud. The landscape of the overgrown garden, the house (unseen) and some other aspects of the landscape appear as echos in the story in the manuscript, in the dreams of the writer of the manuscript, in the dream of the man and in the landscape of the setting of the top frame. Although the manuscript and the story seem to suggest fact, very little in the story is factual, and it often seems all of it only happens in the imagination of the main character, to the effect that subtle self-doubt makes the reader wonder about the sanity of the main character. Suggestion and suspense are everything. The story consists of five episodes that seem to be interconnected, but their interconnectedness is possibly just imagined. The presence of the sister and her behavior suggests that all events only exist in the mind of the narrator. One of the episodes (Chapt. 14) breaks up into fragments and has a dreamlike quality. However, among the five episodes, two major parts stand out. The first is the long coherent story of the siege by the swain-things, and the other is the jump to the end of time. Barely traceable story elements suggest these parts are interconnected, but only very faintly, and again much to be imagined. The last part of the travel to the end of time must have been mindboggling to readers a hundred years ago, while now it has been done much more convincingly visually on film and tv. As an historic fantasy story The house on the borderland remains very readable and exciting. The author cleverly constructs a story in which the imagination is the driving force of the story. (  ) edwinbcn | Jan 1, 2023 | RoSands | Jul 18, 2022 |  ) Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Un roman fantastique s'?panouissant dans un d?cor irlandais "Rares sont les ?crivains qui peuvent ?galer Hodgson lorsqu'il ?bauche le dessein des forces sans nom et de monstrueuses entit?s toutes proches, au moyen d'allusions fortuites et de d?tails sans importance, ou bien lorsqu'il communique le sentiment du surnaturel et de l'anormal qui p?se sur un paysage ou une demeure. C'est l'histoire d'une maison abandonn?e et maudite en Irlande, qui est le point de concentration de hideuses forces souterraines et qui soutient le si?ge lanc? par des monstres hybrides et blasph?mateurs, issus d'ab?mes insoup?onnables. L'esprit du narrateur qui voyage pendant d'interminables ann?es-lumi?re ? travers l'espace cosmique et les "Kalkpas" ?ternelles, assistant finalement ? la d?sint?gration du syst?me solaire, constitue quelque chose d'assez unique dans la litt?rature. Partout se manifeste le don de l'auteur ? sugg?rer des objets de terreur impr?cis et embusqu?s dans un d?cor normal. " La Maison au bord du Monde est sans doute le chef-d' uvre de Hodgson. EXTRAIT Pendant bien des heures, j'ai m?dit? sur l'histoire qu'on trouvera ci-apr?s. Plus d'une fois, en ma qualit? d'?diteur, j'ai ?t? tent? de la rendre plus litt?raire ; mais je crois que mon instinct ne m'a pas tromp? quand il m'a conduit ? la laisser telle qu'elle m'a ?t? remise, dans toute sa simplicit?. Quant au manuscrit lui-m?me - vous devez essayer de me voir, la premi?re fois qu'on me l'a confi?, le retournant avec curiosit? en tous sens, avant d'en faire un rapide examen, en le parcourant. C'est un petit livre ; mais il est serr? et, ? part les quelques derni?res pages, il est rempli d'une ?criture bizarre mais tr?s lisible, en m?me temps que tr?s serr?e. Tandis que j'?cris ces lignes, j'ai dans les narines la curieuse et fugace odeur du puits et mes doigts ont gard? l'impression que donnent ces pages collantes ayant s?journ? longtemps dans l'humidit?. Il me suffit d'un l?ger effort pour me rappeler le sentiment premier que m'a donn? le contenu de ce livre : des coups d' il distraits et fragmentaires m'ont permis de d?gager imm?diatement une impression de fantastique. Imaginez-moi confortablement assis pour passer quelques heures solitaires en compagnie de ce petit livre compact. Et le changement qui s'op?re dans mes jugements ! L'apparition d'une demi-croyance. D'une apparente fantaisie se d?gage, pour r?compenser ma concentration impartiale, un ensemble coh?rent d'id?es qui accroche mon int?r?t plus s?rement que la simple ossature du compte rendu ou de l'histoire, ? volont?, bien que j'avoue ma pr?f?rence pour la premi?re expression. J'ai trouv? une plus grande histoire dans la petite - et le paradoxe n'en est pas un. A PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR William Hope Hodgson (1877 - 1918) est n? dans le Comt? d'essex. Fils de pasteur, il quitte tr?s jeune sa famille et naviguera pendant huit ans. Cette exp?rience tr?s dure marquera sa vie personnelle mais ?galement son travail d'?crivain. Lorsqu'?clate la Premi?re Guerre mondiale, il vit en France. Il retourne alors en Angleterre pour s'engager dans l'arm?e et est tu? au front. C'est en dix ann?es d'?criture qu'il ?crivit l'ensemble de ses ouvrages parmi lesquels on compte quelques-uns des textes les plus importants de la litt?rature fantastique : La Chose dans les algues, Les Canots du Glen Carrig ou encore La Maison au bord du Monde. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I fully respect the history and influence of this book and absolutely cannot imagine what it must have been like for HP Lovecraft and others to have read this at the time, as well as the more recent effect on a young and impressionable Terry Pratchett.
This is one of those books I want to love, but just can't. It falls perfectly in that period that has moved out of the verbose and decadent gothic sensibility into the weird and cosmic I genuinely love the descendents of, but can't find the enjoyment in the strangely long-winded in text, yet terse of emotion and description of the time. Saying pale pig faced people are coming to get me is a scary concept and the idea must have been wild at the time, but when the writing of it happening is not conveying the character's feelings in a way that is accessible for me and the events of the action ate bracing, while the manner it is described is dry and instructional it just doesn't move me.
I understand that this is vastly a me problem and I DNF'd early, so maybe it gets wild and visceral later, but I don't care. I want to and personally feeling it is a failing of myself that there is so much are out there that I can intellectually enjoy the idea of and respect, but utterly fail to be moved by. The neurodivergences play their part, but I'm just a fussy bugger. It's funny, I read a book I don't enjoy and I question whether I even know how to read or whether I even enjoy reading, but then I find something I like and I'm up in the wee hours reading and then reaching for that book first thing upon waking.
Ultimately, for historians of fantasy and horror, especially cosmic and weird tales this is essential reading. Many thoroughly enjoy this, from the virulently racist Lovecraft to the gorgeously progressive and loving Pratchett. If you love Lovecraft and Wells, and their drier offerings still do it for you then I do think you'll love this. If the ponderous and bland of prose, regardless of the excitement and nightmares of the content, fail to keep you entertained maybe you won't. All I know is this wasn't my cup of tea in actuality, despite being a full mug of coffee in theory. Does that work even in the slightest? I truly don't care. (