The fiery angel / Valery Bruisov ; translated by Ivor Montagu and Sergei Nalbandov ; with an afterword by Gary Lachman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryusov, Valery Yakovlevich, 1873-1924.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Montagu, Ivor Goldsmid Samuel, 1904-1984.

Nalbandov, Sergei.

Lachman, Gary, 1955-

Series:

Dedalus European classics

Standardized Title:

Ognennyĭ angel. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Occultism--Germany--16th century--Fiction.

Occultism.

Germany.

Genre:

Paranormal fiction, Russian-American.

Occult fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

411 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Sawtry : Dedalus, 2005.

Language Note:

Translated from the Russian.

Summary:

People have enjoyed stories of magic and the supernatural for ages, but in the late 18th century, tales of the occult became something more than a source of thrilling entertainment. At the dawn of the modern age, numerous writers found in the occult a powerful antidote to the rising scientification of human experience. In these reports from the dark side, the weird, enigmatic and unexplainable became symbols of the human spirit's resistance to the new rational world. The Dedalus Occult Reader brings together for the first time a unique collection of European fiction, including passages from Valery Bruisov, Andre Bely, William Beckford, Honore Balzac, Jacques Cazotte, J.K.Huysmans, Bulwer-Lytton, de Maupassant, de Nerval, Goethe, E.T.A. Hoffmann , Arthur Machen, Gustav Meyrink, Jan Potocki and Robert Irwin, offering some of the finest flowers and bizarre blooms from the hermetic gardens of literary occultism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1903517338

9781903517338

OCLC:

56656130