ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1939
Jezik: Hrvatski
Autor: Strani

WILLIAM BECKFORD

VATEK - integralno izdanje

Prevod - Filip M. Dominiković

Izdavač - Binoza, Zagreb

Godina - 1939

275 strana

20 cm

Edicija - Serija Svjetski pisci

Povez - Tvrd

Stanje - Kao na slici, ima potpis prethodnog vlasnika, tekst bez podvlačenja


`Vathek (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Reverend Samuel Henley in which form it was first published in 1786 without Beckford`s name as An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript, claiming to be translated directly from Arabic. The first French edition, titled simply as Vathek, was published in December 1786 (postdated 1787). In the twentieth century some editions include The Episodes of Vathek (Vathek et ses épisodes), three related tales intended by Beckford to be so incorporated, but omitted from the original edition and published separately long after his death.

Vathek capitalised on the eighteenth- (and early nineteenth-) century obsession with all things Oriental (see Orientalism), which was inspired by Antoine Galland`s translation of The Arabian Nights (itself retranslated, into English, in 1708). Beckford was also influenced by similar works from the French writer Voltaire. His originality lay in combining the popular Oriental elements with the Gothic stylings of Horace Walpole`s The Castle of Otranto (1764). The result stands alongside Walpole`s novel and Mary Shelley`s Frankenstein (1818) in the first rank of early Gothic fiction.`


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