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Je voulais savoir si quelqu un sait ce que valent les livres de Thomas Ligotti? Un héritier de Lovecraft assez méconnu (et pas traduit en français à ma connaissance), dont j ai tout de même lu plusieurs fois qu il serait meilleur que le maître, rien que ça...

Je suis tombé sur cet essai intéressant sur le site qui lui est consacré, qui traite des points communs et différences chez les deux écrivains :
http://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=218

Entre autres, il est avancé que Lovecraft préfère à la fin de sa vie sa période "premiers textes", dans le sens où elle servait mieux son objectif de peindre des impressions et atmosphères... Mais qu il est toujours en quête d une forme d expression ultime. Selon l auteur de l essai toujours, Ligotti distingue une troisième technique d écriture horrifique qui correspondrait peut être à ce que recherchait Lovecraft :

These are, he says, essentially three in number. First is the realistic technique, which is simply another name for conventional supernatural realism. The description that he gives would serve well as a textbook definition: "The supernatural and all it represents, is profoundly abnormal, and therefore unreal . . . . Now the highest aim of the realistic horror writer is to prove, in realistic terms, that the unreal is real." The second technique is the traditional gothic technique, which places characters and plotlines in a recognizably gothic-fantastic setting and can therefore dispense with the strictures of realism by, for example, employing an "inflated rhetoric" that would seem hysterical in a more realistic context. Third is the experimental technique, which a writer adopts when the first two would fail to tell the story rightly, and which is defined by the writer's "simply following the story's commands to the best of his human ability . . . . [L]iterary experimentalism is simply the writer's imagination, or lack of it, and feeling, or absence of same, thrashing their chains around in the escape-proof dungeon of the words of the story".

Given Ligotti's assertion that a writer adopts experimentalism when the more traditional styles prove inadequate, we might speculate that it was this style that Lovecraft had in mind when he was searching for a new means of expression.

Last edited by The_Whisperer (2012-11-27 15:33:32)