Before Dracula came Carmilla -- the tale of an excuisite and beautiful vampire and the young woman she befriends and feeds upon. Part of the Wildside Fantasy Classics series.
An interesting motif that I noticed in Carmilla is the anxiety over mysterious creatures, that appear chimerical, in the discussion of Nature and its creation. Could this example of chimerical creatures exemplify anxiety about hybrids or genetic modification? Are Victorians unable to naturalize the process of changes in species?
本来想看吸血鬼形式的unhinged女性力量,但对于十九世纪的男性作家写的女吸血鬼,能期待有什么惊喜呢
some aristocratic men destroying the body of a young woman in 3 extreme ways? Isn't that the perfect epitome of male domination&hate over women...
情节较沉闷,因为现在读者都知道谁是吸血鬼,就这么看着叙述者的无知和恐惧和吸血鬼的伪装持续了大半,揭露也没多少惊喜,也没有很好地呈现叙述者在发现Carmilla真相的过程和她被处决后的感触变化。表达的感情也被吸血鬼特质的解释消解了
语言像是一句话被打乱之后的重组,也许比较符合仍在阴影中的叙述者的状态