Glorious Nemesis edition by Ladislav Klima Marek Tomin Literature Fiction eBooks
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Klima's intense inner life and complex mental state is reflected in his peculiar writings. His eccentricity of style and often volatile prose were intended to convey the deep conflicts attending his thought processes, and this is perhaps best exemplified in the novella Glorious Nemesis. Set in the Tyrol, it is a balladic ghost story that explores the metaphysics of love and death, crime and reincarnation. Sider, a man of twenty-eight, is confronted by a giant mountain named Stag's Head and an ancient hovel standing under a high, black cliff. Out one day on a hike, he encounters two women who will mark his fate the elder Errata, dressed in red, and the younger Orea, dressed in blue (the two colors of the Virgin Mary). From this point on Sider is on a quest for the All, the Absolute, and to achieve eternity by atoning for the misdeeds of a past life. Willing to risk his entire fortune and sanity, he succumbs to his dreams and hallucinations as Orea, or her doppelgänger, becomes for him a representation of the goddess Nemesis who initiates him into the mysteries of divine retribution.
Last revised by Klima in 1926, Glorious Nemesis was published posthumously in 1932. This is the first English translation and includes illustrations from celebrated Czech book designer Pavel Rut, who produced a samizdat edition of the text (with an earlier set of illustrations) during the 1980s when the Communist regime prohibited publication of Klima's work. In the 1970s, The Plastic People of the Universe set the novella to music.
Glorious Nemesis edition by Ladislav Klima Marek Tomin Literature Fiction eBooks
I kept thinking of Hoffmann while I was reading Glorious Nemesis, because, like Hoffmann, here is a tale of constant overlap, recurring image, and an absolute sense of being untethered from the world. The Golden Pot is the closest comparison texturally, except that in Klima's work there is a different thematic overlay. His world is certainly tangled in the fantastic, but everything is given over to a much more sobering, pessimistic end. We understand that our protagonist can't affect any change; he's going to slip right in to the dirty bed he's made. That is fate. We like to see its sunlit side, in movies and novels where couples bump into one another in front of a coffee shop. Here is its other half, a full moon illuminating a man's life as he retraces the nightmarish residue of abuse. As he climbs after apparitions, loses them, and wanders aimlessly. As everything ebbs toward death and loss, toward the landscape he designed.This novella is a revelation. Dark, fractured, and finally cosmic, it should find a special place in weird literature. It is also a perfect example of why we need publishers like Twisted Spoon, who are constantly unearthing little known gems. Fans of Hoffmann, Kleist, Perutz, and Leppin pay special attention.
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Glorious Nemesis edition by Ladislav Klima Marek Tomin Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I kept thinking of Hoffmann while I was reading Glorious Nemesis, because, like Hoffmann, here is a tale of constant overlap, recurring image, and an absolute sense of being untethered from the world. The Golden Pot is the closest comparison texturally, except that in Klima's work there is a different thematic overlay. His world is certainly tangled in the fantastic, but everything is given over to a much more sobering, pessimistic end. We understand that our protagonist can't affect any change; he's going to slip right in to the dirty bed he's made. That is fate. We like to see its sunlit side, in movies and novels where couples bump into one another in front of a coffee shop. Here is its other half, a full moon illuminating a man's life as he retraces the nightmarish residue of abuse. As he climbs after apparitions, loses them, and wanders aimlessly. As everything ebbs toward death and loss, toward the landscape he designed.
This novella is a revelation. Dark, fractured, and finally cosmic, it should find a special place in weird literature. It is also a perfect example of why we need publishers like Twisted Spoon, who are constantly unearthing little known gems. Fans of Hoffmann, Kleist, Perutz, and Leppin pay special attention.
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