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Original Title:	Vathek
ISBN:	0192836560 (ISBN13: 9780192836564)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Vathek, Carathis, Bababalouk, Morakanabad, Nouronihar, Goulchenrouz

Vathek

William Beckford

Paperback | Pages: 170 pages

Rating: 3.29 | 5176 Users | 383 Reviews

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Title	:	Vathek
Author	:	William Beckford
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Oxford University Press
Pages	:	Pages: 170 pages
Published	:	1999 by Oxford University Press (first published 1786)
Categories	:	Gothic. Classics. Horror. Fiction. Fantasy. Literature. 18th Century

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Vathek, William Beckford, Edited with an introduction by Roger Lonsdale, London: Oxford university press, 1970=1349, 187 Pages

Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Beckford. It was composed in French beginning in 1782, and then translated into English by Reverend Samuel Henley in which form it was first published in 1786 without Beckford's name as An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript, claiming to be translated directly from Arabic.

تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و سوم ماه می سال 1978 میلادی

واتک یا واثق؛ که با عنوان: «واتک، حکایتی عربی یا داستان خلیفه واتک» نیز شناخته میشود، رمانی گوتیک (داستانهای پر از دلهره، افسون و فریب، ارواح و جادو پیشگان و...)، به قلم توانای «ویلیام بکفورد»، نویسنده ی انگلیسی است؛ رمان در اوایل سال 1782میلادی، به زبان فرانسه نوشته شده، و بعدها توسط «ساموئل هنلی» به انگلیسی ترجمه شده است؛

چکیده داستان: خلیفه واتک (واثق)، از نواده های هارون الرشید است؛ مادرش کاتاریس، ساحره ای یونانی ست؛ فساد و افزون طلبی، و میل شدید او، به علوم ممنوعه، واتک (واثق) را، بنده ی ابلیس میکند؛ او میخواهد به گنجهای قدرتمداران پیشین (پادشاهان ایران)، در خرابه های ایستاکار (استخر)، دست یابد؛ واتک (واثق)، پنجاه کودک را قربان میکند، تا در نگاه یکی از چشمانش، توان کشتن پدیدار شود، از پایتختش سامارا (سامرا)، سفر خویش را آغاز میکند؛ در طول مسیر، عاشق دختر امیری به نام «نورینهار» میشود، که در ادامه ی سفر، دختر نیز او را همراهی میکند؛ پس از رخدادهای عجیب و پر و پیمان در ایستاکار (استخر)، واتک (واثق) اجازه ی ورود به شبستانهای ابلیس، در دنیای مردگان را پیدا میکند، و در آن دنیای مردگان، به بیهودگی همه ی گنجها، و شگفتیهای همین زمین، و جهان زیرپا، پی میبرد؛ در پایان، واتک (واثق)، و همراهانش در انتظار عذاب ابدی خویش، هستند: جسمشان دست نخورده باقی خواهد ماند، اما قلبشان همیشه در درون و اندرون، خواهد سوخت؛ ا. شربیانی

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Postmodernism has nothing on Vathek. An absolutely bizarre Gothic tale, rich in Orientalism and deviltry. You may think that the modern era has corned the market in strange, difficult texts, but there is truly nothing new under the sun. Vathek is stranger than strange.

Some interesting parts, but overall not quite my jam.

Gothic but not so much horror, this is more like the broody but camp castle-freak stories of Thomas Love Peacock than Mary Shelley's monsters. So much can be gleaned from Beckford's anecdote about one demon's superpower being his shocking ability to... dress salads.

I used to recall, with appalled amusement, the words of a former colleague of mine, who was slyly intrigued (and very proud of his cleverness) that anyone could read dead writers. What can I say? You don't usually argue with fools, whose minds are relaxed. Moreover, ignorance has many faces, and some of them are really funny even if in an involuntary way.On the other hand though, maybe because there are strange points where ineptitude and intelligence seem to cross (not always clear whether for

A review of a novel both Gothic and Oriental, focusing on the Gale ECCO edition with its benefits and flaws.The tale concerning the man who is introduced as "Vathek, Ninth Caliph of the race of the Abassides," is one that defied the conventions of its genres, inspired literary works for over a century (indebted authors include Lord Byron, Keats, Lovecraft, and T. Moore), and in the wake of countless publishings, it entertained generations of readers. It all began with William Beckford's short



William Beckford wrote "The History of Caliph Vathek" in French in 1784, but it was first published in an English translation by Samuel Henley in 1786. Widely regarded as one of the seminal works of Gothic literature, this strange, unclassifiable novel recounts its eponymous protagonist's quest for esoteric knowledge and carnal pleasure, a quest which ultimately leads to his damnation. "Vathek" combines exotic descriptions of the Orient with passages of grotesque comedy and a dollop of