The Worshipper of the Image - Gallienne, Richard Le
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Antony, a writer, his wife Beatrice and their young daughter live a quiet but loving life secreted away in a cottage in a green, woods-filled valley. Antony has a small châlet within the woods near their cottage where he goes to write. On a rare trip to London, while wandering in Covent Garden, Antony stumbles across a sculptor's shop nestled between the stalls. Inside are many busts and heads, but one item in particular commands his attention almost immediately. It is a death-mask which bears an extraordinary resemblance to Beatrice, uncannily so. The proprietor tells him that the mask was…mehr

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Antony, a writer, his wife Beatrice and their young daughter live a quiet but loving life secreted away in a cottage in a green, woods-filled valley. Antony has a small châlet within the woods near their cottage where he goes to write. On a rare trip to London, while wandering in Covent Garden, Antony stumbles across a sculptor's shop nestled between the stalls. Inside are many busts and heads, but one item in particular commands his attention almost immediately. It is a death-mask which bears an extraordinary resemblance to Beatrice, uncannily so. The proprietor tells him that the mask was taken from a young woman who threw herself into the Seine. Due to the likeness, Antony cannot resist the mask, and brings it home. But the image strikes fear into Beatrice, because of its similarity to herself, and also because she can see something new in Antony as he gazes at it fascinatedly. There is something obsessive in his intrigue with the mask. She insists that it is not kept in the house, so Antony takes it to his writing châlet. Before long, she senses that Antony's attention is shifting permanently from herself and their daughter to the personality that he now believes inhabits the image. The personality has a name, Silencieux, and has extraordinary powers of inspiration; his writing improves prodigiously. Silencieux seems to him alive: she is the spirit of beauty, and a muse, but also commandingly cruel. The ordinary world drops away. Here begins a cataclysmic series of events, where his family wrestle fatally with Antony's new obsession. This magnificent tragic fable, first published in 1901, traces a life-and-death fight between the forces of human love and the spellbinding supernatural - in transfixing and poetic prose. Its commentary on the rivalry in an artist's mind between art and life, the artifices of beauty and the warmth of genuine care, is timeless.
Autorenporträt
Richard Le Gallienne was an English writer and poet. Eva Le Gallienne, a British-American actress, was his daughter from his second marriage to Danish journalist Julie Nørregaard (1863-1942). Richard Thomas Gallienne was born in West Derby, Liverpool, England, the eldest son of Jean ("John") Gallienne (1843-1929), manager of the Birkenhead Brewery, and his wife Jane (1839-1910), née Smith. He attended Liverpool College, which was an all-boys public school at the time. After finishing school, he changed his name to Le Gallienne and began working at an accountant's office in London. In 1883, his father took him to an Oscar Wilde lecture in Birkenhead. Mildred Lee, Richard's first wife, and Maria, their second daughter, died during childbirth in 1894, leaving Richard and their daughter Hesper Joyce. Following Mildred's death, he carried an urn holding her ashes with him at all times, including when married to his second wife. Rupert Brooke, who met Le Gallienne on a ship going for the United States in 1913 but did not warm to him, composed a brief poem called "For Mildred's Urn" to mock this behavior.