Clarimonde (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781481197793)

From that night my nature seemed to have become halved -- and there were two men within me, neither of whom knew the other. At one moment I believed myself a priest who dreamed nightly that he was a gentleman -- at another, that I was a gentleman who dreamed he was a priest. I could no longer distinguish the dream from the reality, nor could I discover where the reality began or where ended the dream By day he was a priest of the Lord, occupied with prayer and sacred things . . . by night, a young nobleman, a fine connoisseur of women, dogs, and horses -- gambling, drinking, and blaspheming Theophile Gautier (1811-1872), one of the French masters of the Romantic novel, wrote one of the early masterpieces of vampire fiction, in the sensuous Clarimonde, or La Morte Amoureuse. Never gaze upon a woman Walk abroad with eyes ever fixed upon the ground, says the priest, for however chaste and watchful one may be, the error of a single moment is enough to make one lose eternity

Author: Lafcadio Hearn, Theophile Gautier
ISBN-10: 1481197797
ISBN-13: 9781481197793
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/08/2012
Pages: 44
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.17lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.11d