Imagining of Literature

Constance Mundy, Mrs. Talbot is the first women ever to be taken picture of. Amandine Aurore Dupin, Baronness Dudevant is the real name of the French writer George Sand, who had relationship with the composer Shopen. Auto da fe - the famous act of burning of literature and art pieces in translation reads: act of faith. The name of Ernest Hemingway’s novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is a quotation from an essay of the English poet John Donne. Robert Burns, the Bard of Scotland, was initiated into Masonic Lodge at the age of 22. Mary Wollstonecraft, radical advocate of women’s rights is the mother of Mary Shelley. The young Mary, whose mother died after her birth, learned to read from the epitaph of Wollstonecraft’s grave. It is tradition in England that the queen’s or king’s face is engraved at coins, in Scotland, however, the face on the coins belongs to Sir Walter Scott. Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, the youngest son of Charles Dickens, named after famous Victorian writ...

The next lines are so not going to be about the teenage sweethearts/ wet dreams vampires like Edward Cullen - the Heathcliff wanna be/ afraid of his shadow/ 100-year-old virgin with an extremely bad taste (accept Debussy) creation of a desperate housewife or erotically exaggerated to match the commercial taste undead like Bill Compton or Erik the Northman. I am talking about the classics of literature mythology that resurrect the initial fear of dead and unnatural, the taboo of incest and flesh-consuming allusions. Such vampires are Dracula - both the famous Stoker masterpiece and Kostova’s teasing character, the diabolically featured picture of Baron in the face of Pollidori’s lord Ruthven - “The vampyre. A tale” and the amazing Lestat  - Rice’s most naturalistic vampire. Villains don’t sleep. And the next one is too busy looking at eternity to lose time sleeping. Dracula. The name was simply able to sent chills to the early Stoker’s readers. He is ultimately bloodthirsty - he...