Once Upon Atrocity. Gothic Music Influences in the First Romanian (Neo)gothic Novel
Once Upon Atrocity. Gothic Music Influences in the First Romanian (Neo)gothic Novel

Summary/Abstract: In the following study we explore the Gothic Metal musical influences on Oliviu Crâznic's novel, ... And Then The Nightmare Came At Last (2010), a book which can be regarded as the first (Neo)gothic novel originally written in Romanian. Moreover, we identify three themes belonging to the novel, extracted from Gothic music. All the themes (the alliance between love and death, the conflict between good and evil and the contrast between beauty and the aesthetics of the ugly) have been identified also in Symbolist and Romantic poetry (in the works of Charles Baudelaire and Mihai Eminescu) and in marginal existential philosophy (e.g. E.M. Cioran).

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