Smarra and Trilby
by Charles Nodier
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Nodier's contes are dense, rich, varied in their settings and imbued with supernaturalism. Trilby is set in the Western highlands of Scotland. It is a touching story, as well as being extremely imaginative, and the Scottish background is finely evoked. Smarra is an altogether more brutal story, extravagantly supernatural, with a stong sexual undercurrent. The Times Literary SupplementTags
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So i read Smarra quite a while ago but from what i remember its complete nonsense. Just random surrealism stuff, they say there's a vampire in there somewhere but i recall no evidence to that. [2/5]
Trilby on the other hand had a lot of potential, about a sprite who gets exorcised from the cottage he haunts. Its this conflict between the old pagan and new christian ideologies, good stuff. Unfortunately its completely overwritten, Nodier is similar to [a:Théophile Gautier|103384|Théophile Gautier|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1217372455p2/103384.jpg] in style. Overwritten, overlong and kinda falls apart at the end. [3/5]
Trilby on the other hand had a lot of potential, about a sprite who gets exorcised from the cottage he haunts. Its this conflict between the old pagan and new christian ideologies, good stuff. Unfortunately its completely overwritten, Nodier is similar to [a:Théophile Gautier|103384|Théophile Gautier|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1217372455p2/103384.jpg] in style. Overwritten, overlong and kinda falls apart at the end. [3/5]
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- 843.7 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French fiction Constitutional monarchy 1815–48
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