The Swann Princess - Mikhail Vrubel
Hector and Cordelia are promised to each other since childhood. On his return from a long stay in America, the young man was delighted to find his bride, whose letters have yet made over the months, more rare and more distant. Cordelia's father confesses to his son that his daughter was left for several months under the influence of a very talented artist, who her to learn his art, but also the suggestion and in which hypnostime it seems incontestable master.
On their wedding day, then she thought she was freed from the influence of this man, this Cordelia receives a portrait of her, just signed a "P". A few hours later, the young woman finds herself plunged into a deep trance ...
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Fell into an unfortunate omission since almost a century (written in 1920), The Heart burglarized is certainly one of the most beautiful works of Gaston Leroux. In 150 pages ago, the author has managed to bring together all ingredients fiction, fantasy, mystery, that make his work complete one of the strangest and most exciting of his time.
Heart Burglarized did not deny the influence of Phantom of the Opera or Dolls and Bloody Murder Machine . Everything is fundamentally romantic, wild, all driven to madness , until the improbable, until tragedy.
We firstly Hector, the brave character, down to earth, not prone to wandering of the soul and existential questions, and who strives to save itself the young Cordelia, character sensitivity is heightened, but an undeniable goodness, happens to any delay. On the other hand, Patrick found the genius of art and suggestions, which will employ all means possible to bring back fantastically Cordelia to him. On the merits, the story traces the same frame, the same drama triangle as other works by Leroux. There is also a common idea: that of the female character, who finds himself in the grip of a figure wreathed in mystery, whose only assets unconditional love, melancholy and charisma. This is the case of Christine Daae, Christine Norbert, or even Stangerson, to name a few ...
Then there was a good man, Hector, like Raoul de Chagny by Jacques Cotentin, Robert Darzac struggling with ways humans against an enemy inssaisissable and superhuman.
Although the character "black" in this novel, Patrick, do not really unlike Erik, Benedict Masson Larsan, since it is absolutely devoid of violence and extreme actions, yet it shares with leroussiens counterparts, significant similarities: he uses incredible gifts and invraissemblables to achieve its purposes, and land like them in the shade. It is regrettable that Leroux has pushed further the portrait of his character, who certainly deserved. Because it raises enough interest in Cordelia, for one,, can not know if she really wants to be saved from his bad influence ...
A fantastic tale, haunting, which can leave no fan of the genre marble ... (And others!)
Note that an adjustment was made in 1970 for television http://www.tele70.com/article-le-coeur-cambriole-54772845.html
A another in 1986 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498901/ ) has also been turned, but none of them are available on DVD or VHS movie link ... with some pictures BDFF: http://php88.free.fr/bdff/image_film.php?ID=4144
On their wedding day, then she thought she was freed from the influence of this man, this Cordelia receives a portrait of her, just signed a "P". A few hours later, the young woman finds herself plunged into a deep trance ...
***
Fell into an unfortunate omission since almost a century (written in 1920), The Heart burglarized is certainly one of the most beautiful works of Gaston Leroux. In 150 pages ago, the author has managed to bring together all ingredients fiction, fantasy, mystery, that make his work complete one of the strangest and most exciting of his time.
Heart Burglarized did not deny the influence of Phantom of the Opera or Dolls and Bloody Murder Machine . Everything is fundamentally romantic, wild, all driven to madness , until the improbable, until tragedy.
We firstly Hector, the brave character, down to earth, not prone to wandering of the soul and existential questions, and who strives to save itself the young Cordelia, character sensitivity is heightened, but an undeniable goodness, happens to any delay. On the other hand, Patrick found the genius of art and suggestions, which will employ all means possible to bring back fantastically Cordelia to him. On the merits, the story traces the same frame, the same drama triangle as other works by Leroux. There is also a common idea: that of the female character, who finds himself in the grip of a figure wreathed in mystery, whose only assets unconditional love, melancholy and charisma. This is the case of Christine Daae, Christine Norbert, or even Stangerson, to name a few ...
Then there was a good man, Hector, like Raoul de Chagny by Jacques Cotentin, Robert Darzac struggling with ways humans against an enemy inssaisissable and superhuman.
Although the character "black" in this novel, Patrick, do not really unlike Erik, Benedict Masson Larsan, since it is absolutely devoid of violence and extreme actions, yet it shares with leroussiens counterparts, significant similarities: he uses incredible gifts and invraissemblables to achieve its purposes, and land like them in the shade. It is regrettable that Leroux has pushed further the portrait of his character, who certainly deserved. Because it raises enough interest in Cordelia, for one,, can not know if she really wants to be saved from his bad influence ...
A fantastic tale, haunting, which can leave no fan of the genre marble ... (And others!)
Note that an adjustment was made in 1970 for television http://www.tele70.com/article-le-coeur-cambriole-54772845.html
A another in 1986 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498901/ ) has also been turned, but none of them are available on DVD or VHS movie link ... with some pictures BDFF: http://php88.free.fr/bdff/image_film.php?ID=4144
