Oh, right, Bela! I'll move that one up in my queue.
I'm inclined to think you're going to be correct about Coppola creating a new characterization of Lucy. That film has some flaws, but before reading the novel, I didn't think the Lucy portrayal was one of them!
I am loving Stoker! He possessed a massive intellect and a sharp sense for myth, folk tale, and fable. He also reveals through the novel a quick and accurate perception of psychology. He embraced folk horror a century before it became a thing. The fact that Dracula was a mid-late-life offering says to me that it was a story his psyche needed to tell. I don't find the novel mediocre but rather a freshman effort, an untrained writer telling a story through a formula he was comfortable with! As to Whitman, don't forget he spent years admiring from afar and discussing the poet with his contemporaries. I'm certain during those conversations he found that Whitman had to be defended first before his art could be appreciated and his advice to the outrageously flamboyant American would have been sound to his more circumspect experience. Although, I'm inclined to think that something in Walt's throbbing love for the world spoke to Stoker on a level he hadn't experienced through the craft of writing.
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Date: 2025-03-30 10:37 pm (UTC)I'm inclined to think you're going to be correct about Coppola creating a new characterization of Lucy. That film has some flaws, but before reading the novel, I didn't think the Lucy portrayal was one of them!
I am loving Stoker! He possessed a massive intellect and a sharp sense for myth, folk tale, and fable. He also reveals through the novel a quick and accurate perception of psychology. He embraced folk horror a century before it became a thing. The fact that Dracula was a mid-late-life offering says to me that it was a story his psyche needed to tell. I don't find the novel mediocre but rather a freshman effort, an untrained writer telling a story through a formula he was comfortable with! As to Whitman, don't forget he spent years admiring from afar and discussing the poet with his contemporaries. I'm certain during those conversations he found that Whitman had to be defended first before his art could be appreciated and his advice to the outrageously flamboyant American would have been sound to his more circumspect experience. Although, I'm inclined to think that something in Walt's throbbing love for the world spoke to Stoker on a level he hadn't experienced through the craft of writing.