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1/17Dedication Poem
King in Yellow (Version 2)
THE STUDIO
THE STUDIO
He smiled, saying, “Seek her throughout the world.”
I said, “Why tell me of the world? My world is here, between these walls and the sheet of glass above; here among gilded flagons and dull jewelled arms, tarnished frames and canvasses, black chests and high-backed chairs, quaintly carved and stained in blue and gold.”
“For whom do you wait?” he said, and I answered, “When she comes I shall know her.”
On my hearth a tongue of flame whispered secrets to the whitening ashes. In the street below I heard footsteps, a voice, and a song.
“For whom then do you wait?” he said, and I answered, “I shall know her.”
Footsteps, a voice, and a song in the street below, and I knew the song but neither the steps nor the voice.
“Fool!” he cried, “the song is the same, the voice and steps have but changed with years!”
On the hearth a tongue of flame whispered above the whitening ashes: “Wait no more; they have passed, the steps and the voice in the street below.”
Then he smiled, saying, “For whom do you wait? Seek her throughout the world!”
I answered, “My world is here, between these walls and the sheet of glass above; here among gilded flagons and dull jewelled arms, tarnished frames and canvasses, black chests and high-backed chairs, quaintly carved and stained in blue and gold.”
Zusammenfassung
The King in Yellow is a collection of short stories by the American writer Robert W. Chambers, published in 1895. Its best-known pieces share a single unsettling idea: a play, also called The King in Yellow, whose second act is said to drive readers to madness or despair. The play itself is never shown in full. Instead, Chambers offers scattered fragments and allusions to a strange place called Carcosa, to a figure named Hastur and to the Yellow Sign, and lets the reader's imagination do the rest.
The opening stories move between a slightly distorted near-future New York and the studios of Paris, following artists, soldiers and dreamers whose lives are bent out of shape once the play or its symbols cross their path. Narrators are often unreliable, and the line between delusion and real horror stays deliberately blurred. Later in the book the tone shifts toward lighter, romantic tales of art students in Paris, which shows another side of Chambers' writing.
The weird stories had a long afterlife. H. P. Lovecraft admired them and borrowed their imagery, and the book found new readers after its references appeared in modern television and games. Listeners who enjoy early cosmic horror, Gothic atmosphere or fiction that suggests more than it explains will find plenty here.
Über
A collection of stories that inspired the works of many writers such as HP Lovecraft, "The King in Yellow" revolves around the play that the main characters read a part of, and those two acts of the play drive them all into madness. - Summary by Eva Staes
Weitere Versionen von King in Yellow (Version 2)
- King in Yellow (part 1) — gelesen von Peter Yearsley · Englisch
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