Théophile Gautier

Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post's Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla's affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic. In dark Baudelairean tradition, Théophile Gautier weaves his characteristic...

En el invierno de 1858, Théophile Gautier, "el poeta impecable, el perfecto mago de las letras francesas y maestro y amigo" de Charles Baudelaire, se desprende de la "nostalgia azur" que siente por el Mediterráneo y se lanza al "vértigo del Norte", a la gran Rusia. En pleno invierno, habiendo superado ya el trayecto que cruza Alemania, Gautier enlaza San Petersburgo con Moscú, dando lugar a las primeras muestras de la irresistible belleza de sus...

Laissez-vous guider pour un merveilleux voyage dans la Russie du XIXe siècle Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872), le « fils du soleil », s'émerveille devant les prestiges de la capitale des neiges qu'il appelle « l'Athènes du Nord ». Ébloui par les palais et les cathédrales aux teintes pastel, il glisse en traîneau sur la Perspective Nevski, pénètre dans le Palais d'Hiver et assiste à la bénédiction de la Néva en présence du tsar. Texte...

Modern English readers may likely find "King Candaules" the most exciting of the stories in terms of the strength of its narrative, but much of Gautier's writing is so compelling because of his spectacular descriptions and elaborate style, which befits the extravagance of the subject matter, especially in "One of Cleopatra's Nights". The shorter stories in between are worth reading for reasons which are unique to each of them, but "Clarimonde" deserves...

Take a trip into the distant past in this classic work of historical fiction from French writer and thinker Theophile Gautier. This novelized account of the life of the ancient ruler plays up the action - and the despot's rather unusual romantic proclivities.

Extrait : "Gérard de Nerval. "Les morts vont vite par le frais !" dit Bürger dans sa ballade de Lenore, si bien traduite par Gérard de Nerval ; mais ils ne vont pas tellement vite, les morts aimés, qu'on ne se souvienne longtemps de leur passage à l'horizon, o, sur la lune large et ronde, se dessinait fantastiquement leut fugitive silhouette noire." À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN : Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques...

A historical novel set in Ancient Egypt, which features the Biblical Exodus. The mummy is a disturbing and exciting book, in which a beautiful love story, spent thousands of years ago in Thebes of the Pharaohs, is intertwined with the moment, when the Jews left Egypt and the episode of crossing the Red Sea. (Goodreads)

The Mummy's Foot (French: Le Pied de momie) is a gothic short story by the French writer Théophile Gautier, first published in 1840. It relates the fantastical tale of a contemporary man and the adventures, which befall him when he ventures into a Parisian curiosity shop and buys the four-thousand-year-old foot of Princess Hermonthis.

Containing fantasy, horror, and vampire fiction, One of Cleopatra's Nights is a collection of passionate stories by Théophile Gautier, the master of the spectral. The title story captures the eternal horror of Egypt's netherworld of catacombs; and the romantic vampire tale, "Clarimonde," is included here along with other tales of sinister creatures and femme fatales.

Extrait: "Oph (c'est le nom égyptien de la ville que l'antiquité appelait Thèbes aux cent portes ou Diospolis Magna) semblait endormie sous l'action dévorante d'un soleil de plomb."