Carmilla

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French language

ISBN:
978-2-302-04255-1
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Dans un château de la lointaine Styrie, au début du XIXe siècle, vit une jeune fille solitaire et maladive. Lorsque surgit d'un attelage accidenté près du vieux pont gothique la silhouette ravissante de Carmilla, une vie nouvelle commence pour l'héroïne. Une étrange maladie se répand dans la région, tandis qu'une inquiétante torpeur s'empare de celle qui bientôt ne peut plus résister à la séduction de Carmilla... Un amour ineffable grandit entre les deux créatures, la prédatrice et sa proie, associées à tout jamais " par la plus bizarre maladie qui eût affligé un être humain ". Métaphore implacable de l'amour interdit, Carmilla envoûte jusqu'à la dernière ligne... jusqu'à la dernière goutte de sang !

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reviewed Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

no wonder it's a classic

devoured this as an audiobook over less than a week. it's a good book of a comfortable length! yes, it's got its clunky parts (especially that last chapter that feels obligated to provide explanations to stuff that really didn't need too much of an explanation or that could have better been explained throughout), but i feel like that is mostly an issue of different stylistic expectations over a 150 year gap. still though, i enjoyed the book, as evident by the speed i read it, and it's nice to catch up on what is a vital piece of both vampire, gothic and lesbian literature.

reviewed Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Short, not gay enough, but thrilling when it was

Though it could and deserved to be much, much gayer; it was very enjoyable. Besides the out of nowhere classist and racist remarks very obviously shoehorned in by the author that didn't even affect the story and we're completely unnecessary, it presented the kind of queer relationship you develop as a child, innocent but passionate and desperate almost. And that definitely made my heart race like the good old days.