{"id":56327,"date":"2022-09-01T02:58:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T02:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=56327"},"modified":"2022-10-14T03:39:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T03:39:58","slug":"news-from-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/09\/01\/news-from-france\/","title":{"rendered":"News from France"},"content":{"rendered":"

My thanks to Gregory for letting me know that the French magazine Actuality: The Universe of Books<\/em> has a new article “Lovecraft, Cthulhu and the Old Ones enter the Pleiades”<\/a>. Here “Pleiades” is a play on the name of the famous French publishing house, Bibliotheque de la Pleiade. Who have now revealed (I translate)…<\/p>\n

We are currently preparing an edition of the works of H.P. Lovecraft”, confirms La Pleiade. … “The work is in progress”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is not to be confused with the sumptious Mnemos multi-volume edition of Lovecraft now emerging…<\/p>\n

Mnemos will soon publish the 4th volume of a gigantic translation, at the end of September [2022] … accompanied by the required scholarly apparatus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The final third of the article turns into a short interview with the main translator for Mnemos, David Pathe-Camus…<\/p>\n

I challenge you to read a text such as “Nyarlathotep” and not think about our own time. It reads like it was written just for us. Lovecraft had a keen awareness of the human condition. [In a way, his work] foreshadows the currents that will come after it — such as existentialism or the absurd.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The same article also notes A Bestiary of the Twilight<\/em> (Le Bestiaire du Crepuscule<\/em>, June 2022), a French ‘BD’ (i.e. oversized graphic novel, often in hardcover) which…<\/p>\n

takes HPL as the main character<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Update: Le Bestiaire du Crepuscule<\/em> has been re-titled as The Monstrous Dreams of Mr. Providence<\/em> for the English edition, and since summer 2022 can now be enjoyed by English readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My thanks to Gregory for letting me know that the French magazine Actuality: The Universe of Books has a new …<\/p>\n

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