The Carpathian Castle : A New Translation

Jules Verne

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Branching Plot Books Jan 2025, 2025

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Neuware - A castle in the Carpathian Mountains, supposedly abandoned for years, shows signs of occupation. Lights flicker in its windows. Smoke rises from its chimneys. Strange sounds echo through the valleys. The villagers of the region know what this means: the dead have returned.Franz de Télek, a young Italian nobleman, has his own reasons for investigating. Years ago, he loved La Stilla, a celebrated opera singer who died tragically young. Rumors suggest she's been seen in the castle-or something wearing her appearance. When Franz ventures into the fortress, he discovers something more disturbing than ghosts: Baron Rodolphe de Gortz has deployed the latest technological innovations-phonographs, projection equipment, elaborate mechanical systems-to resurrect the dead. Or rather, to create an impossibly convincing illusion of resurrection.Jules Verne published The Carpathian Castle in 1892, during the darkest phase of his career. Personal tragedies had accumulated; his technological optimism had evaporated. This novel comes from that period, when Verne had stopped believing that innovation necessarily meant progress.Set in Transylvania five years before Bram Stoker's Dracula, the novel initially seems to be Gothic horror-terrified peasants, mysterious castle, supernatural occurrences. Then Verne reveals the technological infrastructure underlying everything, transforming Gothic conventions into something stranger: recognition that human ingenuity can create effects as unsettling as any traditional haunting.The Baron hasn't used technology to advance knowledge or improve lives. He's deployed it to refuse death's finality, to remain frozen in grief, to create an increasingly elaborate fantasy that La Stilla still exists. The machines don't ease his obsession-they enable it, allowing him to sustain delusion indefinitely.What makes the novel particularly unsettling is how prescient it feels. Verne anticipated questions we're still wrestling with: How does technology shape memory and grief Can recordings genuinely preserve what they capture, or do they create sophisticated forms of deception Where's the line between commemoration and pathological refusal to accept loss This isn't the Verne of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea or Around the World in Eighty Days. This is late-career Verne, profoundly skeptical about progress, using Gothic conventions to explore technology's capacity not to liberate but to deceive, to enable new forms of obsession impossible without mechanical intervention.For readers interested in how the nineteenth century anticipated our current anxieties about technology, memory, and simulated presence, The Carpathian Castle offers something genuinely strange-a novel that understood, decades before digital technology made it obvious, that our most sophisticated tools might serve our pathologies as readily as our better angels.…

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Titolo
The Carpathian Castle : A New Translation
Autore
Jules Verne
Editore
Branching Plot Books Jan 2025
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Taschenbuch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 13
9798306316017
Peso dell'articolo
253 grammi
Dimensioni
229x152x13 mm

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