Name: Somnambulistic Lucidity: The Sleepwalker in the Works of Gustav Meyrink (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)
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Somnambulistic Lucidity: The Sleepwalker in the Works of Gustav Meyrink (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Christina Rossetti

Publisher

Ediciones Rilke

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

179

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9788494197970

Edited in

España

Synopsis "Somnambulistic Lucidity: The Sleepwalker in the Works of Gustav Meyrink (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature) "

Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932), best known as the author of The Golem (1915), experimented with the occult in a time rife with occult experimentation. As a seeker of esoteric truth, he practiced and wrote about elements of Western Esotericism-alternative religious movements that pursued methods of tapping into secret spiritual wisdom that helped define the age. In doing so, Meyrink developed his own theories of salvation, which featured yoga as a means to open the door to supernatural and paranormal experience. In this way, his life, as well as his fiction, exemplifies liminality, existence on the margins. The core symbol of this liminal experience is the somnambulist: a figure existing between material and spiritual states of consciousness, having access to both yet belonging to neither. His oeuvre features characters entering trances, wandering the borders between "waking" and "metaphysical" worlds, gaining access to secret truths, and realizing salvation via a unio mystica. Meyrink, therefore, has much to say about the cultural climate of the fin de siecle: by viewing the turn of the twentieth century as a time defined by searches for certitude, by locating Western Esotericism as a meaningful movement of the age, by situating Meyrink on the periphery of social and spiritual spheres, and by identifying the sleepwalker as a seminal figure of the period as well as in Meyrink's work, this study echoes Meyrink's own attempts to find lucidity in the ambiguity of somnambulism.

Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) fue una de las voces más destacadas de la poesía victoriana en Inglaterra. Su obra se caracteriza por una sensibilidad profunda que explora temas como la espiritualidad, el sacrificio, el amor y la condición femenina en una sociedad marcada por convenciones rígidas. Su primer gran éxito fue Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), libro que la consagró como una poeta singular por su fuerza imaginativa y el simbolismo de sus versos.

A lo largo de su trayectoria desarrolló una poesía cargada de imágenes líricas y un estilo distintivo que la situó como referente dentro del movimiento prerrafaelita, en sintonía con el trabajo artístico de su hermano Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Aunque no recibió premios en vida, su obra fue revalorizada con el tiempo y hoy se la reconoce como una de las poetas más influyentes del siglo XIX, cuya voz aún resuena con vigor en la literatura inglesa.

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