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Arthur Machen (Border Lines) (Hardcover)

by Mark Valentine (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 148 pages
  • Publisher: Seren (4 Oct 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 185411123X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1854111234
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sorcery & Sanctity - Insightful Study of Machen's Life & Work, 15 Sep 2009
This review is from: Arthur Machen (Border Lines) (Paperback)
I first encountered Machen when I was a boy in Peter Haining anthologies ('Strange Occurence in Clerkenwell), absorbed 'The Great God Pan' and 'The Novel of the White Powder' in a dark rapture during my teens and was stunned by 'The White People' (one of the most astounding, outre and disquieting short tales ever penned - a perfect, exquisite jewel of spiritual terror) and fascinated by 'N' in my twenties. So Mark Valentine's study of Machen's ouevre, its aesthetic and context and how it relates to the stages of Machen's own life and career, provides a truly excellent and welcome resource for those who savour Machen's curious style and archaic ambiences, De Quinceyan in its incantatory music and artifice, as stylistically elaborate as Sir Thomas Browne, shot through with transcendent strains of the diabolic and the divine, those sacramental mysteries of 'Sorcery and Sanctity' which the reclusive Ambrose expounds upon in unforgettable fashion in that magnificent disquisition upon the metaphysics of spiritual evil and the true nature of sin which opens 'The White People'. Mark Valentine's study is one of the best overviews of Machen and furthermore one which evinces a real sympathy and insight into the peculiar mythos which pervades his works, that subtle and transfiguring spirit of mediaeval mysticism which breathes throughout his tales, radiating ineffable glimmerings from the realm of the Grail and the 'Rose of Fire' whose wondrous refulgence is beheld in 'The Great Return'. Like Traherne and Blake, Machen's writing is suffused with the ever-present awareness of the phenomenal world of appearances as a veil or curtain concealing the infinite realm of transcendent marvels, paradaisal beauty and sublime secrets from the eyes of profane man. Furthermore Mark Valentine's book illuminates the artistic and spiritual world-view of Arthur Machen for whom, as a High Churchman, Christianity was ever the 'greatest of the mystery religions' and highlights his devotion to the Mass as the supreme mystery - in this light Machen's personal perspectives upon the Grail whose mythos had its origin, so he speculated, in the Gallic and Byzantine derived rite of the early Celtic Church and the hallows of ancient Celtic saints. From the fin-de-siecle atmospheres of luxuriant corruption embodied in the fiendish Dr Lipsius and Helen Vaughan, traffickings with ancient, malevolent powers, Aegipans and satyrs to the arcane ecstasies, mystic symbolism and radiant glimpses of heavenly marvels in 'The Secret Glory', this book very ably traces the creative trajectory of Machen's vision, through the Decadence of the '90s and the Celtic Twilight through which he asserted his Welsh identity as an artist. Mark Valentine's book is a highly readable and comprehensive work which casts much light on Machen and his unique sensibility - as a study which truly enhances our appreciation of this great writer this book can be highly recommended to all admirers of Arthur Machen and his beautifully-wrought tales of tenebrous and luminous secrets...
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