H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft
Lovecraft 1934 yilda
Tug'ilgan	Xovard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-08-20)1890 yil 20-avgust Providens, Rod-Aylend, BIZ.
O'ldi	1937 yil 15 mart(1937-03-15) (46 yoshda) Providens, Roy-Aylend, AQSh
Dam olish joyi	Oqqush nuqta qabristoni, Providens, Roy-Aylend, AQSh 41 ° 51′14 ″ N. 71 ° 22′52 ″ V / 41.854021 ° 71.381068 ° Vt / 41.854021; -71.381068
Qalam nomi	Lyuis Teobald Xemfri Littlewit Uord Fillips Edvard yumshoq Persi oddiy
Kasb	Qisqacha yozuvchi, muharrir, roman yozuvchisi, shoir
Millati	Amerika
Davr	1917–1937
Janr	G'alati fantastika, dahshatli fantastika, ilmiy fantastika, gotika fantastikasi, xayol, Lovecraftian dahshati
Adabiy harakat	Kosmikizm
Taniqli ishlar	"Ktulxuning chaqirig'i " Noma'lum Kadatning orzu-qidiruvi Jinnilik tog'larida Innsmut ustidagi soya Vaqtdan tashqaridagi soya
Turmush o'rtog'i	Sonia Grin ​ (m. 1924)​
Imzo

Xovard Phillips Lovecraft (BIZ: /ˈlʌvkræft/; 1890 yil 20 avgust - 1937 yil 15 mart) ning Amerikalik yozuvchisi g'alati va dahshatli fantastika, nima yaratganligi bilan tanilgan Kthulxu miflari.^{[n 1]}

Tug'ilgan Providens, Rod-Aylend, Lovecraft hayotining ko'p qismini shu erda o'tkazgan Yangi Angliya. U farovonlikda tug'ilgan, ammo oilasining boyligi bobosi vafotidan ko'p o'tmay tarqalib ketgan. 1913 yilda u a ga tanqidiy xat yozdi pulpa jurnali bu oxir-oqibat uning pulpa fantastika bilan shug'ullanishiga olib keldi. Davomida urushlararo davr, u insoniyatning koinotdagi o'rnini izohlashga qaratilgan hikoyalarni yozgan va nashr etgan. Uning fikriga ko'ra, insoniyat beparvo kosmosning ahamiyatsiz qismi bo'lib, uni har qanday vaqtda olib tashlash mumkin edi. Ushbu hikoyalar ham kiritilgan hayoliy ning sezilgan mo'rtligini ifodalovchi elementlar antropotsentrizm.

Lovecraft "The Lovecraft Circle" nomi bilan tanilgan mualliflarning kengroq markazida bo'lgan. Ushbu guruh o'zlarining tafsilotlarini tez-tez baham ko'radigan hikoyalar yozdilar. U shuningdek, samarali yozuvchi edi. U bir nechta turli xil mualliflar va adabiyotshunoslar bilan yozishmalar olib bordi. Ba'zi hisob-kitoblarga ko'ra, u hayoti davomida taxminan 100,000 xatlar yozgan.^{[n 2]} Ushbu maktublarda u o'zining dunyoqarashi va kundalik hayotini muhokama qilgan va kabi yosh mualliflarga dars bergan Avgust Derlet, Donald Vandrey va Robert Bloch.

Voyaga etgan hayoti davomida, Lovecraft hech qachon muallif va muharriri sifatida daromaddan o'zini ta'minlay olmagan. U hayoti davomida deyarli noma'lum bo'lgan va 46 yoshida qashshoqlikda vafot etishidan oldin deyarli pulpa jurnallarida nashr etilgan, ammo hozirgi paytda g'ayritabiiy dahshatli fantastika 20-asrning eng muhim mualliflaridan biri hisoblanadi. Uning eng taniqli ertaklari orasida "Ktulxuning chaqirig'i ", "Devorlardagi kalamushlar ", Jinnilik tog'larida, Innsmut ustidagi soya va Vaqtdan tashqaridagi soya. Uning asarlari Ktulxu mifosining asosini tashkil etadi, bu esa katta qismga ilhom bergan pastiches deb nomlanuvchi yanada kengroq subgenrni tashkil etuvchi Lovecraft belgilariga, sozlamalariga va mavzulariga oid o'yinlar, musiqa va boshqa ommaviy axborot vositalari. Lovecraftian dahshati.

Biografiya

Dastlabki hayot va oilaviy fojialar

Sara, Xovard va Uinfild Lovecraft 1892 yilda.

Lovecraft o'zining oilaviy uyida 1890 yil 20-avgustda tug'ilgan Providens, Rod-Aylend. U Uinfild Skott Lovecraft va Sara Syuzan [nei Fillips] Lovecraftning yagona farzandi edi.^[3] Syuzining oilasi, turmush qurganlarida, uning otasi Uipl Van Buren Fillipsning ishbilarmonlik bilan shug'ullanishida katta mablag 'bo'lgan.^[4]

1893 yil aprelda, Chikagodagi mehmonxonadagi psixotik epizoddan so'ng, Uinfild sodiq qoldi Butler kasalxonasi Providensiyada. Uinfildning kasalxonaga qilganligi to'g'risida kim xabar bergani aniq emas, ammo tibbiy yozuvlar uning majburiyatidan bir yil oldin "ba'zan g'alati narsalar qilgani va aytganligi" ni ko'rsatmoqda.^[5] Uinfild 1898 yilda vafot etguncha Butlerda besh yil yashagan. Uning o'limi to'g'risidagi guvohnomada o'lim sababi ko'rsatilgan umumiy parez, oxirgi bosqich bilan sinonim bo'lgan atama sifiliz.^[6] Lovecraft butun hayoti davomida otasi uyqusizlik va ortiqcha ish tufayli paralitik holatga tushib qolganini va o'limigacha shu tarzda qolganini ta'kidladi. Lovecraft shunchaki otasining kasalligidan bexabar bo'lganmi yoki uning keyingi so'zlari qasddan chalg'itilganmi yoki yo'qmi noma'lum.^[5]

Otasi kasalxonaga yotqizilganidan so'ng, Lovecraft oilasi uyida onasi, onasi xolalari Lillian va Enni va onasining bobosi Uipl va Robi bilan yashagan.^[7] Oila do'stlarining hisob-kitoblariga ko'ra, Syuzi yosh Lovecraftni aybdor deb bilgan, uni erkalagan va uni hech qachon o'z ko'zidan qochirmagan.^[8] Keyinchalik Lovecraft otasining kasalligidan so'ng onasi "doimiy ravishda qayg'uga botganini" esladi. Uipl bu vaqt ichida Lovecraft uchun ota figurasiga aylandi va Lovecraft o'zining bobosi "mening butun koinotimning markazi" ga aylanganini ta'kidladi. Ish bilan tez-tez sayohat qilgan Uipple uch yoshida o'qish va yozishni juda yaxshi bilgan yosh Lovecraft bilan yozishmalar olib bordi.^[7]

U yosh Lovecraftni, ayniqsa, adabiyotni qadrlashga undaydi mumtoz adabiyot va Ingliz she'riyati. Keksayganida u yosh H. P. Lovecraftni tarbiyalashga yordam berdi va uni nafaqat klassikada, balki asl nusxada ham o'rgatdi g'alati ertaklar u nevarasining ko'ngil ochishi uchun yaratgan "qanotli dahshatlar" va "chuqur, past, nola tovushlari". Fillipsning g'alati ertaklarining aniq manbalari aniqlanmagan. Lovecraft o'zi klassikadan kelib chiqqan deb taxmin qildi Gotik roman yozuvchilari kabi Ann Radcliffe, Metyu Lyuis va Charlz Maturin. Aynan shu davrda Lovecraft o'zining ba'zi dastlabki adabiy ta'sirlari bilan tanishdi Qadimgi dengizchilarning rejimi tomonidan tasvirlangan Gustav Dori, Ming bir kecha, onasining sovg'asi, Tomas Bulfinch "s Ertak asri va Ovid "s Metamorfozalar.^[9]

Lovecraft buvisi Robiga ayniqsa yaqin bo'lganligi to'g'risida hech qanday ma'lumot yo'q bo'lsa-da, uning 1896 yilda vafoti katta ta'sir ko'rsatdi. O'zining fikriga ko'ra, bu uning oilasini "hech qachon to'liq tiklanmaydigan zulmatga" tushirdi. Onasi va xolalari qora motam liboslarini kiyib olgani uni "dahshatga solgan" va aynan shu paytda taxminan besh yarim yoshda bo'lgan Lovecraft, keyinchalik yozganlaridan xabardor qiladigan dahshatli tushlarni ko'rishni boshladi. Xususan, u "tungi g'orlar" deb atagan mavjudotlarning takrorlanadigan tushlarini ko'rishni boshladi; ularning paydo bo'lishiga u Do'rning "meni kosmosda tezlashadigan tezlik bilan aylantirib yuboradigan, shu bilan birga meni jirkanch uchqunlari bilan bezovta qiladigan va qo'zg'atadigan" illyustratsiyalarining ta'siriga ishongan. O'ttiz yil o'tgach, Lovecraft-ning yozuvlarida tungi g'oyalar paydo bo'ladi.^[10]

Lovecraftning eng qadimgi adabiy asarlari etti yoshidan boshlab she'rlarni qayta tiklaydigan she'rlar bilan boshlangan Odisseya va boshqa mifologik hikoyalar.^[11] Lovecraftning so'zlariga ko'ra, u bolaligida Rim xudolari panteoniga qiziqib, ularni ilohiyotning asl ifodasi sifatida qabul qilgan va nasroniy tarbiyasida oldin bo'lgan. U besh yoshida Santa Klaus yo'qligini aytganini va nima uchun "Xudo teng darajada afsona emas" deb so'raganini esladi.^[12] Sakkiz yoshida u fanlarga, xususan, astronomiya va kimyoga katta qiziqish bilan qaradi. Shuningdek, u oilaviy kutubxonada mavjud bo'lgan anatomiya kitoblarini o'rganib chiqib, unga hali tushuntirib berilmagan odam ko'payishining o'ziga xos xususiyatlarini o'rganib chiqdi va bu "mening mavzuga bo'lgan qiziqishimni deyarli yo'q qildi".^[13]

1902 yilda, Lovecraft-ning o'z yozishmalariga ko'ra, astronomiya uning dunyoqarashiga etakchi ta'sirga aylandi. U davriy nashrni chiqara boshladi Roy-Aylend astronomiya jurnali, ulardan 69 soni saqlanib qolgan gektograf bosib chiqarish usuli.^[14] Lovecraft boshlang'ich maktabga bir necha bor kirib bordi va ko'pincha uy o'qituvchilari yo'qolgan o'quv yillarini to'ldirib, sog'lig'i sababli to'liq aniq bo'lmagan vaqtni yo'qotib qo'yishdi. Tengdoshlarining yozma esdaliklarida, u ikkalasi ham o'zini tortib olgan, ammo hozirgi qiziqishini astronomiya bilan baham ko'rgan har bir kishini ochiq kutib olgani va har kimni o'zi qadrlagan teleskopga qarashga taklif qilgani tasvirlangan.^[15]

1900 yilga kelib, Uiplning turli xil biznes tashvishlari tanazzulga uchragan va uning oilasi boyligini asta-sekin kamaytirgan. U oilasining yollangan xizmatchilarini qo'yib yuborishga majbur bo'ldi, chunki Lovecraft, Whipple va Susie, yolg'iz turmush qurgan singil bo'lib, oilaviy uyda yolg'iz qoldi.^[16] 1904 yil bahorida Uiplning eng yirik tijorat korxonasi halokatli muvaffaqiyatsizlikka uchradi. Bir necha oy ichida u 70 yoshida qon tomirlari tufayli vafot etdi. Uipl vafot etganidan so'ng, Syuzi Fillips mulkidan qolgan uydagi keng oilaviy uyni saqlashga qodir emas edi. O'sha yili u o'zini va o'g'lini kichkintoyga ko'chirishga majbur bo'ldi dupleks.^[17]

Lovecraft bu vaqtni hayotidagi eng qorong'u voqealardan biri deb atadi va 1934 yilgi maktubida endi yashashdan foyda yo'qligini ta'kidladi.^[18] Xuddi shu yilning kuzida u o'rta maktabni boshladi. Oldingi maktab yillari singari, Lovecraft ba'zan "yaqinda buzilishlar" deb atagani uchun uzoq vaqt maktabdan chetlashtirilardi. Ammo u o'qituvchilar bilan ziddiyatlarga duch kelganida, o'rta maktabni yaxshi ko'rganini, kichik do'stlar doirasi bilan yaqin bo'lganini va yaxshi o'qiganligini, xususan kimyo va fizikadan ustunligini aytdi.^[19] 1904 yildagi pauzadan tashqari, u yana nashrni davom ettirdi Roy-Aylend astronomiya jurnali shuningdek boshlash Ilmiy gazetaasosan kimyo bilan shug'ullangan.^[20] Aynan shu davrda Lovecraft keyinchalik u taniqli bo'lgan birinchi fantastika turlarini yaratdi, ya'ni "G'ordagi hayvon "va"Alkimyogar ".^[21]

Bu 1908 yilda, o'rta maktabni bitirguniga qadar, Lovecraft yana bir bor sog'liq inqiroziga duch kelganida edi, ammo bu avvalgi holatga qaraganda ancha og'ir edi. Aniq holatlar va sabablar noma'lum bo'lib qolmoqda. Faqatgina to'g'ridan-to'g'ri yozuvlar - bu Lovecraft-ning keyingi yozishmalaridir, u u uni "asabiy tushish" va "buzilish" deb ta'riflagan, bir maktubida uni zavqlanishiga qaramay, uni o'rta maktabning stressi bilan ayblagan. 1908 yildagi voqealar to'g'risida boshqa bir maktubida u shunday yozadi: "Men kuchli bosh og'rig'i, uyqusizlik va umumiy asabiy zaiflikning o'ljasi edim va bu mening har qanday narsaga doimiy ravishda murojaat qilishimga xalaqit beradi".^[22]

Lovecraft o'rta maktabdan keyin Braun Universitetiga o'qishga kirishini ta'kidlagan bo'lsa-da, u hech qachon maktabni tugatmagan va boshqa maktabda ham o'qimagan. Lovecraft jismoniy kasallikka chalinganmi, ruhiy kasallikmi yoki uning kombinatsiyasi hech qachon aniqlanmagan. O'rta maktab o'quvchisining akkauntida Lovecraft "dahshatli tiklar" namoyish etilishi va ba'zida "u o'z o'rindig'ida o'tirar edi, u to'satdan o'rnidan turib sakrab tushar edi". Garri Brobst, psixologiya professori, hisobni o'rganib chiqdi va buni da'vo qildi kichik xorea Lovecraftning bolalik davridagi alomatlarining sababi, o'spirinlikdan keyin kichik bo'lgan xorea holatlari juda kam uchraydi.^[22]

Lovecraftning o'zi xatlarida bolaligida xoreya bilan og'riganligini tan oldi.^[23] Brobst bundan tashqari, Lovecraftning 1908 yildagi parchalanishini "histeroid tutilishi" bilan bog'lashga qaror qildi, bu atama bugungi kunda odatda atipik tushkunlik.^[24] 1908 yil voqealariga oid yana bir maktubda Lovecraft "birovni ko'rishga yoki u bilan gaplashishga toqat qilolmasligini va qorong'i soyalarni tortib, sun'iy nur yordamida dunyoni yopib qo'yishni yaxshi ko'rishini" ta'kidlagan.^[25]

Eng erta tan olinishi

Bir nechta Lovecraft va Syuzining 1908 yil oxiridan 1913 yilgacha bo'lgan faoliyati qayd etilgan.^[25] Lovecraft, amakisining muvaffaqiyatsiz ishbilarmonlik faoliyati bilan ta'kidlangan moliyaviy susayishining barqaror davom etishi haqida eslatib o'tdi, chunki Syuzi kamayib borayotgan boyliklarining katta qismiga aylandi. Syuzining do'sti Klara Xess, Syuzi Lovecraftning "shunchalik jirkanchki, u hammadan yashiringanligi va odamlar unga qarab turadigan ko'chalarda yurishni yoqtirmaganligi" haqida doimiy ravishda gapirib berganini eslar edi. Hessning bunday emasligiga qarshi noroziligiga qaramay, Syuzi bu pozitsiyasini saqlab qoldi.^[26] O'z navbatida, Lovecraft onasini "ijobiy mulohaza mo''jizasi" deb topganini aytdi.^[27] Keyinroq qo'shni qo'shnining ta'kidlashicha, mahalla ahli ko'pincha tungi tunda janjal va onaning o'g'li bilan janjallashgan deb o'ylashadi, u Shekspirning tilovatlari deb tan olgan, bu ona va o'g'ilni quvontirgandek tuyulgan.^[28]

Ushbu davrda Lovecraft o'zining oldingi ilmiy davriy nashrlarini qayta tikladi.^[25] U o'zini o'rganishga bag'ishlashga intildi organik kimyo, Syuzi o'zi xohlagan qimmatbaho shisha kimyo to'plamini sotib oldi.^[29] Lovecraft, uning ishini matematikaning qiziqishi bilan topdi, u zerikarli deb topdi va bosh og'rig'ini keltirib chiqarishi mumkin edi, bu uni bir kunga qobiliyatsiz qiladi.^[30] Lovecraftning o'zini o'zi nashr etmagan birinchi she'ri 1912 yilda mahalliy gazetada paydo bo'ldi. Chaqirildi Hijriy 2000 yilda dalillar, she'rda ingliz merosi odamlari immigrantlar tomonidan ko'chirilgan kelajak: Irlandiyaliklar, italiyaliklar, portugallar va yahudiylar nazarda tutilgan edi.^[31] Bu davrda u "New-England Fallen" va "Niggersni yaratish to'g'risida" kabi irqchi she'rlar yozgan; ikkalasi ham uning hayoti davomida nashr etilganiga ishora yo'q.^[32]

1911 yilda Lovecraftning muharrirlarga yozgan xatlari pulpa va g'alati fantastik jurnallarda, eng muhimi, paydo bo'la boshladi Argosy.^[33] 1913 yilgi tanqidiy xat Fred Jekson, Argosy uchun taniqli yozuvchi, Lovecraftni hayotiga katta ta'sir ko'rsatadigan yo'ldan boshladi. Lovecraft Jeksonning hikoyalarini "ahamiyatsiz, jirkanch va ba'zi joylarda qo'pol" deb ta'riflagan. Lovecraft so'zlarini davom ettirar ekan, Jeksonning personajlari "negr va antropoid maymunlarga xos nozik ehtiros va hissiyotlarni" namoyish etishini aytdi.^[34]

Bu harflar qismida qariyb bir yillik adovatni keltirib chiqardi Argosy Lovecraft o'rtasida, uning vaqti-vaqti bilan tarafdorlari bilan birga va aksariyat o'quvchilar Jeksonga nisbatan nuqtai nazarini tanqid qilmoqdalar. Lovecraftning eng katta tanqidchisi Jon Rassel edi, u tez-tez oyatlarda javob qaytarar edi va unga Rassellning yozish mahoratini hurmat qilgani uchun Lovecraft javob berishga majbur bo'lgan.^[34] Mojaroning eng tezkor ta'siri tan olinishi edi Edvard F. Daas, keyin bosh muharriri Birlashgan havaskorlar matbuot uyushmasi^[35] (shuningdek, UAPA deb nomlanadi). Daas Rassel va Lovecraftni tashkilotga taklif qildi va ikkalasi ham 1914 yil aprel oyida Lovecraftni qabul qilishdi.^[36]

Yoshartirish va fojia

Lovecraft keyingi o'n yillikning ko'p qismida o'zini havaskor jurnalistika dunyosiga singdirdi.^[37] Ushbu davrda u tijoratizmga qarshi havaskorlik tarafdori edi.^[38] Lovecraftning tijoratga oid ta'rifi, u kam pulli nashrlar uchun pul yozish uchun yozish uchun xos edi. U buni o'zining "professional nashr" haqidagi qarashlari bilan taqqosladi va uni hurmatga sazovor deb bilgan jurnallar va noshirlarga yozish deb atadi. U havaskor jurnalistikani professional martaba uchun mashg'ulot va mashg'ulot deb bilgan.^[39]

Lovecraft 1914 yil oxirida UAPA jamoatchilik tanqidlari bo'limining raisi etib tayinlandi.^[40] U ushbu lavozimdan ko'pchilik yozuvchilar allaqachon arxaik deb hisoblagan ingliz tilidan foydalanishning ustunligini talab qiladigan, ko'pchilik o'ziga xos deb hisoblagan huquqni himoya qilish uchun foydalangan. U butun hayoti davomida anglofil fikrlarini timsolida namoyish etib, UAPAning boshqa ishtirokchilarini "amerika" va "jargonlar" uchun ochiq tanqid qildi. Ko'pincha bu tanqidlar muhojirlar tomonidan "milliy til" ning "xor" qilinishini xafa qiladigan ksenofobik va irqchi dalillarga asoslangan edi.^[41]

1915 yil o'rtalarida Lovecraft UAPA birinchi vitse-prezidenti lavozimiga saylandi.^[42] Ikki yil o'tgach, u prezident etib saylandi va kengashning boshqa a'zolarini tayinladi, ular asosan klassik ingliz tilining zamonaviy amerikalik ingliz tilidan ustunligi to'g'risida o'z fikrlarini bildirishdi.^[43] Bu vaqtning yana bir muhim voqeasi boshlanishi edi Birinchi jahon urushi. Lovecraft AQSh hukumati va Amerika jamoatchiligining Amerikaning vatani deb hisoblagan Angliyani himoya qilish uchun urushga qo'shilishni istamasligini ko'plab tanqid qildi.^[44]

1916 yilda Lovecraft o'zining dastlabki qisqa hikoyasini nashr etdi "Alkimyogar "UAPA asosiy jurnalida uning odatdagi oyatidan chetlashish. Shuning uchun rag'batlantirishning ahamiyati yo'q V. Pol Kuk UAPAning yana bir a'zosi va kelajakdagi umr bo'yi do'sti Lovecraft ko'proq fantastika yozishni va nashr etishni boshladi.^[45] Tez orada quyidagilar "Qabr "va"Dagon ".^[46] "Qabr", Lovecraftning tan olishicha, uning eng katta ta'siridan biri yozuvlari uslubi va qurilishini diqqat bilan kuzatib boradi, Edgar Allan Po.^[47] "Dagon" bo'lsa-da, Lovecraftning yozuvi keyinchalik ma'lum bo'lgan tushunchalar va mavzularni qamrab olgan birinchi asari hisoblanadi.^[48]

1918 yilda Lovecraftning UAPA prezidenti lavozimidagi muddati tugadi va u o'zining jamoat tanqidlari bo'limining raisi lavozimini egalladi.^[49] 1919 yilda Lovecraft yana bir "Uyqu devoridan narida" nomli qissasini nashr etdi.^[50] 1917 yilda Lovecraft Kleiner bilan bog'liq bo'lganligi sababli, Lovecraft armiyaga qo'shilishga urinishni to'xtatdi. U jismoniy imtihondan o'tgan bo'lsa ham,^[51] u Kleinerga onasi "agar armiyaga yarashmagan barcha illatlarni oshkor qilmasam, qonuniy yoki boshqa yo'l bilan borishni qo'rqitganini" aytdi.^[52]

1918-1919 yil qishda Syuzi qandaydir "asabiy buzilish" alomatlarini namoyish etib, o'zining katta opasi Lillian bilan birga yashadi. Syuzi nimadan aziyat chekishi mumkinligi aniq emas. 1948 yilda intervyu bergan qo'shnisi va do'sti Klara Xess Syuzining "binolar orqasidan va qorong'u burchaklardan shoshilib chiqqan g'alati va hayoliy jonzotlarni" tasvirlab berganini esladi.^{[53][sahifa kerak ]} Xuddi shu voqeada Gess Providensiya markazidagi yo'llarni kesib o'tgan va Syuzi "hayajonlangan va qaerdaligini bilmagan" vaqtni tasvirlaydi. Sabablari qanday bo'lishidan qat'i nazar, 1919 yil mart oyida ular Syuzini Butler kasalxonasiga, avvalgi eri singari, topshirishga majbur qilishdi.^[54] Lovecraftning Syuzining majburiyatiga zudlik bilan munosabati visseral bo'lib, Kleynerga "mavjudlik unchalik ahamiyatli emas" deb yozgan va u "bu tugashini" istagan.^[55] Lovecraft vaqti-vaqti bilan Syuziga tashrif buyurib, u bilan birga katta maydonlarda yurgan^[56] Ammo Susining shifokorlari bilan gaplashib, Butlerga kirganidan bir oy o'tgach, Lovecraft uni hech qachon ozod qilmasligini tushundi.^{[iqtibos kerak ]}

1919 yil oxirlarida Lovecraft yanada xushchaqchaq bo'lib qoldi. Biroz izolyatsiya qilinganidan so'ng, u do'stlari bilan yozuvchi yig'ilishlariga tashrif buyurishni boshladi; birinchi bo'lib Bostondagi nutq Lord Dunsani, uni yaqinda Lovecraft kashf etgan va but qilgan.^[57] 1920 yil boshida havaskor yozuvchilar anjumanida u uchrashdi Frank Belknap Long, kim Lovecraftning butun hayoti davomida eng nufuzli va eng yaqin do'sti bo'lib qoladi.^[58] Ushbu davr, shuningdek, Lovecraftning qisqa hikoyali karerasida eng samarali bo'lganligi isbotlandi.^[59] Dunsanyning ta'siri uning 1919 yildagi chiqishida aniq ko'rinib turibdi, keyinroq "Oq kema", "Sarnatga kelgan azob" va "Randolf Karterning bayonoti" kabi hikoyalari bilan Lovecraftning "Orzular tsikli" yaratildi. 1920 yil boshida "Ultharning mushuklari "va"Selefiy ".^[60]

Keyinchalik, 1920 yilda Lovecraft eng mos hikoyalarni nashr etishni boshladi Kthulxu miflari. Cthulhu Mythos, ehtimol bu atama tomonidan kiritilgan Avgust Derlet, Lovecraftning kosmik ahamiyatsizlikni ochishdagi umumiyligi, dastlab realistik sozlamalari va takrorlanadigan mavjudotlari va matnlari bilan umumiy bo'lgan hikoyalarini qamrab oladi.^[61] Uinifred Virjiniya Jekson bilan hamkorlikda "Nyarlathotep" she'ri va "Crawling Chaos" qissasi 1920 yil oxirida yozilgan.^[62] 1921 yil boshida "Ismsiz shahar" paydo bo'ldi, bu birinchi hikoya Tsulxu Mifosiga to'g'ri keladi. Unda Lovecraft-ning bitmas-bitmas bitiklaridan biri, uning ijodi tomonidan o'qilgan juftlik mavjud Abdul Alhazred, "Bu abadiy yolg'on gapira oladigan o'lik emas; g'alati avionlar bilan o'lim ham o'lishi mumkin."^[63]

1921 yil 24-mayda Syuzi besh kun oldin o't pufagi operatsiyasining asoratlari tufayli Butler kasalxonasida vafot etdi. Loveining Suzining o'limidan to'qqiz kun o'tgach, xat bilan ifodalangan dastlabki reaktsiyasi, uni jismoniy va hissiy jihatdan nogiron qilib, "yashashni davom ettirish uchun hech qanday sabab topmadim" deb yana bir bor ta'kidlagan "o'ta asabiy zarba" edi.^[64] Lovecraftning reaktsiyasiga qaramay, u havaskor jurnalistlarning anjumanlarida qatnashishni davom ettirdi. Iyul oyida ana shunday anjumanlardan birida Lovecraft uchrashdi Sonia Grin.^[65]

Nikoh va Nyu-York

1921 yil 5-iyulda H. P. Lovecraft va Sonia Grin.

Lovecraftning xolalari Sonia bilan bo'lgan munosabatlaridan norozi bo'lishdi. Lovecraft va Grin 1924 yil 3-martda turmush qurishdi va unga ko'chib ketishdi Bruklin Flatbush prospektidagi 793-xonadon; u Providensni gullab-yashnashi uchun tark etishi kerak deb o'ylardi va uni moddiy qo'llab-quvvatlashga tayyor edi.^{[66][sahifa kerak ]} Avvalroq turmush qurgan Grin, keyinchalik Lovecraft o'zaro munosabatlarning barcha jabhalarida tashabbuskor bo'lishi kerak bo'lsa-da, sevgilisi sifatida qoniqarli ijro etganini aytdi. U Lovecraftning passiv xususiyatini onasi tomonidan qoqilib qolgan tarbiya bilan bog'ladi.^[67] Lovecraftning vazni uning uyida ovqat tayyorlashda 200 funtga (91 kg) ko'tarildi.^{[68][sahifa kerak ]}

U Nyu-Yorkka juda yoqdi va norasmiy ravishda "Kalem Club" deb nomlanganida, u o'zining hikoyalarini yuborishga undagan bir guruh intellektual va adabiy do'stlarini rag'batlantirdi. G'alati ertaklar; muharriri Edvin Baird Boshqa ko'plab dunyodagi "Dream Cycle" Lovecraft hikoyalarini kasal bo'lgan nashr uchun qabul qildi, ammo ular o'quvchilarning bir qismi tomonidan qattiq tanqid qilindi.^[69] Lovecraft Nyu-Yorkka kelishidan bir necha yil oldin norasmiy ravishda tashkil etilgan bo'lib, Kalem Clubning asosiy a'zolari o'g'il bolalarning sarguzasht yozuvchisi edi Genri Everett Makneyl, advokat va anarxist yozuvchi Jeyms Ferdinand Morton kichik va shoir Raynxardt Klayner.^{[iqtibos kerak ]}

1925 yilning yangi yilida Sonia Klivlendga ish topish uchun ko'chib o'tdi va Lovecraft Flatbushdan Klinton ko'chasidagi 169-uyning birinchi qavatidagi kichkina kvartirasiga yo'l oldi. Red Hook "- uni juda bezovta qilgan joy.^[70] O'sha yili Kalem Clubning to'rtta doimiy ishtirokchisiga uning himoyachisi bilan birga Lovecraft qo'shildi Frank Belknap Long, kitob sotuvchisi Jorj Uillard Kirk va Samuel Loveman. Loveman yahudiy edi, lekin ikkinchisiga qaramay, u va Lovecraft yaqin do'st bo'lishdi nativist munosabat.^[71]

Nikohdan ko'p vaqt o'tmay, Gren o'z biznesini yo'qotdi va uning aktivlari bankning ishdan chiqishi natijasida g'oyib bo'ldi; u ham kasal bo'lib qoldi. Lovecraft o'z xotinini doimiy ish bilan ta'minlashga harakat qildi, ammo avvalgi ish tajribasining etishmasligi u sotuvga oid ko'nikmalarga ega emasligini anglatadi. Past darajadagi xizmatchi sifatida bir nechta muvaffaqiyatsiz sehrlardan so'ng, uning ish qidirishi bekorga aylandi. Noshiri G'alati ertaklar zararli jurnalni ishbilarmonlik asosiga qo'yishga urinib ko'rdi va muharrir lavozimini Lovecraftga taklif qildi, u Chikagoga ko'chib o'tishni istamaganligi sababli rad etdi; "keksa yoshdagi keksa odam uchun bunday harakatning fojiasini o'ylab ko'ring", deb e'lon qildi 34 yoshli yozuvchi. Baird bilan almashtirildi Farnsvort Rayt, uning yozuvi Lovecraft tanqid qilgan. Lovecraft-ning taqdimotlari ko'pincha Rayt tomonidan rad etilgan. (Bu qisman a dan keyin tsenzuraga oid ko'rsatmalarga bog'liq bo'lishi mumkin G'alati ertaklar nekrofiliyaga ishora qilgan voqea, garchi Lovecraft vafotidan so'ng, Rayt dastlab rad etgan ko'plab hikoyalarni qabul qildi.)^[69]

Grin, ish bo'lgan joyga ko'chib, Sincinnatiga, keyin esa Klivlendga ko'chib o'tdi; uning ishi doimiy sayohatni talab qildi. Ko'p immigrantlar yashaydigan shaharda muvaffaqiyatsizlikka uchragan dahshatli haqiqatga qo'shilgan Lovecraftning Klinton ko'chasidagi 169-uydagi bitta xonali kvartirasi Bruklin balandligi, ishchilar sinfi bo'yidagi mahalladan unchalik uzoq emas Red Hook, burgled edi, unga faqat kiygan kiyimlari qoldi. 1925 yil avgustda u "Red Hook-da dahshat "va"U ", ikkinchisida rivoyatchi" Mening Nyu-Yorkka kelishim xato edi; chunki men hayratlanarli hayrat va ilhom izlagan edim [...] Men buning o'rniga faqat o'zlashtirish, falaj qilish va yo'q qilish bilan tahdid qiladigan dahshat va zulm tuyg'usini topdim.Ktulxuning chaqirig'i ", uning mavzusi butun insoniyatning ahamiyatsizligi bilan. Grinning haftalik nafaqasi bilan Lovecraft ishchilar sinfiga ko'chib o'tdi. Bruklin balandligi u erda kichkina kvartirada yashagan. U 1926 yilgacha Providensga jo'nab ketgach, taxminan 40 kilogramm (18 kg) vaznini yo'qotgan.^[72]

Providence-ga qaytish

Lovecraftning so'nggi uyi, 1933 yil may oyida 1937 yil 10 martgacha

Providensga qaytib, Lovecraft "keng jigarrangda" yashagan Viktoriya davri yog'och uy "1933 yilgacha Barnes ko'chasi 10-uyda.^[73] Xuddi shu manzil Lovecraft's-dagi doktor Uillettning uyi bilan berilgan Charlz Dekter Uordning ishi. Providensga qaytganidan keyin boshlangan davr - hayotining so'nggi o'n yilligi - bu Lovecraftning eng sermahsul davri edi; o'sha paytda u qisqa hikoyalar va eng uzun badiiy asarlarini yaratdi: Noma'lum Kadatning orzu-qidiruvi, Charlz Dekter Uordning ishiva Jinnilik tog'larida. U tez-tez boshqa mualliflar uchun ishlarni qayta ko'rib chiqdi va katta hajmdagi ishlarni amalga oshirdi arvoh yozish, shu jumladan Höyük, Qanotli o'limva Alonzo Tayperning kundaligi. Mijoz Garri Xudini maqtovga sazovor bo'ldi va Lovecraftga gazeta sindikatining boshlig'i bilan tanishtirish orqali yordam berishga urindi. Keyingi loyiha rejalari Houdinining o'limi bilan yakunlandi.^[74]

Garchi u o'zining o'ziga xos uslubini (dahshatli va passiv rivoyatchilar tomonidan allyuziv va amorf tavsiflarni) muharriri aksiyadorlik mazmuni va harakati bilan birlashtira olgan bo'lsa-da. G'alati ertaklar xohlagan - Rayt pulni sotib olish uchun juda yaxshi pul to'lagan "Dunvich dahshati "bu kitobxonlar orasida juda mashhur bo'lib qoldi - Lovecraft tobora ko'proq ish olib bordi, unga hech qanday haq to'lamadi. Uning asarlarini qabul qilishda beparvolikka ta'sir qilgan Lovecraft, aslida tanqidga juda sezgir edi va uni olib tashlashga osonlikcha ta'sir qildi. U sinashdan voz kechishi ma'lum edi bir marta rad etilganidan keyin hikoyani sotish.^[75]

Ba'zan, xuddi shunday Innsmut ustidagi soya (bu harakatni ta'minlaydigan g'azablangan ta'qibni o'z ichiga olgan) u tijorat jihatdan foydali bo'lishi mumkin bo'lgan hikoyani yozgan, ammo uni sotishga urinmagan. Lovecraft hatto qiziqqan noshirlarni e'tiborsiz qoldirdi. Lovecraft tayyor bo'lishi mumkin bo'lgan biron bir roman haqida so'raganida, u javob berolmadi: garchi u bunday ishni tugatgan bo'lsa ham, Charlz Dekter Uordning ishi, bu hech qachon yozilmagan.^[75] Lovecraft Providence-ga ko'chib o'tganidan bir necha yil o'tgach, u va uning rafiqasi Sonia Grin uzoq vaqt alohida yashab, do'stona ajrashishga rozi bo'lishdi. 1933 yilda Grin Kaliforniyaga ko'chib o'tdi va 1936 yilda yana turmushga chiqdi, Lovecraft, aksincha, uning ishonchiga qaramay, hech qachon rasmiy ravishda yakuniy farmonga imzo chekmaganligini bilmaydi.^[76]

So'nggi yillar va o'lim

Lovecraft hech qachon hikoyalarni sotish va boshqalarga pullik adabiy ishlarni bajarish bilan hatto asosiy xarajatlarni ham ta'minlay olmagan. U vafot etganda deyarli tugab qolgan meros bilan kun kechirgan holda tejamkorlik bilan yashadi. U ba'zida xatlarni jo'natish narxini to'lash uchun ovqatlanishdan mahrum bo'lgan.^{[77][sahifa kerak ]} Nyu-Yorkdan ketganidan so'ng, u tirik qolgan xolasi bilan Braun universiteti yaqinidagi Barnes ko'chasidagi 10-kvartiraga ko'chib o'tdi; bir necha yil o'tgach, ular Prospekt ko'chasi 65-da biroz arzonroq joyga ko'chib ketishdi. Natijada Katta depressiya, u o'zining oldingi e'tiqodlari va ko'tarilgan oqim oqimini inkor etib, sotsializm tomon siljidi fashizm.^[78] U qo'llab-quvvatladi Franklin D. Ruzvelt, lekin u shunday deb o'yladi Yangi bitim etarlicha chapga emas edi.^[79]

H. P. Lovecraftning qabr toshi

1936 yil oxirida u nashr etilganiga guvoh bo'ldi Innsmut ustidagi soya qog'ozli kitob sifatida.^{[n 3]} Biroq, Lovecraft norozi edi, chunki uning kitobida xatolar bor edi. U asta-sekin sotildi va atigi 200 nusxasi bog'landi. Qolgan nusxalari noshir ishdan chiqqanidan keyin yo'q qilindi. Shu paytgacha Lovecraftning adabiy faoliyati yakuniga etdi. So'nggi asl hikoyasini yozganidan ko'p o'tmay "Zulmatning xunteri ", dedi u dushmanona qabul Jinnilik tog'larida "samarali fantastik kareramni tugatish uchun hamma narsadan ko'proq" ish qilgan.^[80]

11 iyun kuni Robert E. Xovard onasi komadan uyg'onmasligini aytgandan keyin o'z joniga qasd qildi. Ko'p o'tmay onasi vafot etdi. Bu Xovardning otasini tasalli bergan Lovecraftga qattiq ta'sir qildi. Deyarli darhol Lovecraft "Memoriamda: Robert Ervin Xovard" nomli qisqacha esdalik kitobini yozdi.^[81] Ayni paytda, Lovecraftning jismoniy salomatligi yomonlashdi. U "gripp" deb atagan azobdan azob chekayotgan edi.^{[n 4][80]}

Shifokorlardan qo'rqishi tufayli, Lovecraft o'limidan bir oy oldin tekshiruvdan o'tkazilmagan. Shifokorga murojaat qilingandan so'ng, unga terminal deyilgan ingichka ichak saratoni. U o'lgunicha kasalxonada yotgan. U Providensiyada 1937 yil 15 martda vafotigacha doimiy og'riq bilan yashadi. U umr bo'yi olib borgan ilmiy qiziqishiga muvofiq, u jismonan qalam tutishga qodir bo'lmaguncha kasalligi haqida kundalik yuritgan.^[83] Lovecraft ota-onasi bilan birga Fillips oilaviy yodgorligida (41 ° 51′14 ″ N. 71 ° 22′52 ″ V / 41.8540176 ° N 71.3810921 ° Vt / 41.8540176; -71.3810921). 1977 yilda muxlislar poydevor qo'ydilar Oqqush nuqta qabristoni ustiga uning ismini, tug'ilgan va vafot etgan kunlarini va "MEN BOSHQARMAN" iborasini yozgan - bu uning shaxsiy maktublaridan biri.^[84]

Ta'sir

Uning qiziqishi bolaligidan boshlab, gotik hikoyalarni afzal ko'rgan bobosi unga o'z dizaynidagi hikoyalarni aytib berishidan boshlangan. Lovecraftning Angell ko'chasidagi bolalik uyi katta kutubxonaga ega edi. Ushbu kutubxonada mumtoz adabiyotlar, ilmiy ishlar va dastlabki g'alati fantastika mavjud edi. Besh yoshida Lovecraft kitob o'qishni yaxshi ko'rardi Ming bir kecha va o'qiyotgan edi Hawthorne bir yildan keyin. Unga sayohat adabiyoti ham ta'sir ko'rsatgan Jon Mandevil va Marko Polo. Bu uning kashfiyotiga olib keldi bo'shliqlar, bu Lovecraftning o'spirinlik davrida o'z joniga qasd qilishiga to'sqinlik qildi. Ushbu sayohatnomalar, shuningdek, Lovecraftning keyingi asarlarida ularning fe'l-atvori va joylashuvi qanday tasvirlanganiga ta'sir ko'rsatgan bo'lishi mumkin. Masalan, Polo-dagi Tibet sehrgarlarining kuchlari o'rtasida o'xshashlik mavjud Sayohatlar va Sentinel tepaligidagi kuchlar "Dunvich dahshati ".^[85]

Lovecraftning eng muhim adabiy ta'sirlaridan biri Edgar Allan Po bo'lib, uni "Xayoliy xudo" deb ta'riflagan.^[86] Lovecraft singari, Po ham o'z davrida hukmron bo'lgan adabiy tendentsiyalar bilan qadam tashlamagan. Ikkala muallif ham o'ziga xos, yagona fantaziya dunyosini yaratdilar va ish bilan ta'minlandilar arxaizmlar ularning asarlarida. Ushbu ta'sir uning romanlari kabi asarlarda uchraydi Innsmut ustidagi soya^[87] Lovecraft Poning hikoyasiga murojaat qilgan joyda "Buzg'unchining ta'siri "nomi bilan 3-bobda va uning" Nemesis "she'rida, bu erda" ... qorong'ulik bilan himoyalangan shlyuzlar "^[88] "... Veyrning xayolparast o'rmonzorlari" ni taklif qiling^[89] Podan topilgan "Ulalume ". She'rdan to'g'ridan-to'g'ri iqtibos va Poning yagona romaniga havola Artur Gordon Nantucketning Pym haqida hikoyasi Lovecraft-da eslatib o'tilgan magnum opus Jinnilik tog'larida.^[90] Ikkala muallif ham ko'plab biografik o'xshashliklarni, masalan, yoshligida otalarini yo'qotish va she'riyatga erta qiziqish bilan bo'lishgan.^[91]

Unga ta'sir ko'rsatdi Artur Machen "s^[92] qadimgi yovuzlikning zamonaviy zamonda aks holda realistik dunyoda saqlanib qolishi va uning haqiqat orqasida yotgan yashirin sirlarga bo'lgan e'tiqodi to'g'risida ehtiyotkorlik bilan qurilgan. Lovecraft kabi mualliflar ham ta'sir ko'rsatgan Osvald Shpengler va Robert V. Chambers. Chambers yozuvchisi edi Sariq rangdagi qirol, bu haqda Lovecraft maktubida yozgan Klark Eshton Smit: "Palatalar o'xshash Rupert Xyuz va boshqa bir necha yiqilgan Titanlar - to'g'ri miya va ma'lumot bilan jihozlangan, ammo ulardan foydalanish odatidan butunlay chiqib ketgan. "Lovecraftning kashfiyoti Lord Dunsani,^[93] xayolparast tashqi sohalarda mavjud bo'lgan qudratli xudolarning panteonlari bilan o'z yozuvlarini yangi yo'nalishga o'tkazdi, natijada bir qator taqlid xayollari paydo bo'ldi Dreamlands sozlash.

Lovecraft ham keltirilgan Algernon Blekvud iqtibos keltirgan holda Kentavr "bosh xatboshisidaKtulxuning chaqirig'i ". U Blekvudning hikoyasini e'lon qildi Willows g'alati fantastika yozilgan yagona eng yaxshi asar bo'lishi.^[94] Boshqa ilhom manbai butunlay boshqa manbadan kelib chiqdi: biologiya, astronomiya,^[95] geologiya va fizika.^[96] Uning ilm-fanni o'rganishi Lovecraftning odamzodni ahamiyatsiz, kuchsiz va a materialistik va mexanik koinot.^[97] Lovecraft yoshligidan havaskor astronom edi, ko'pincha tashrif buyurgan Ladd rasadxonasi Providensda va o'zining shaxsiy jurnali va mahalliy gazetalarda ko'plab astronomik maqolalarni yozish.^[98]

Lovecraftning materialistik qarashlari uni o'zining fantastika orqali falsafiy qarashlarini qo'llab-quvvatlashga olib keldi; bu falsafiy qarashlar chaqirila boshlandi kosmikizm. Hozir Tsyulxu Mifos nomi bilan mashhur bo'lgan narsani yaratishi bilan kosmikizm yanada pessimistik tus oldi; begona xudolarni va dahshatlarni o'z ichiga olgan xayoliy koinot. "Cthulhu Mythos" atamasi, ehtimol, Lovecraftning vafotidan keyin Lovecraft muxbiri va himoyachisi Avgust Derlet tomonidan kiritilgan.^[1] Lovecraft o'z maktublarida hazillashib o'zining xayoliy mifologiyasini "Yog-Sototeriya" deb atagan.^[99]

Lovecraftning adabiy faoliyatida tushlar katta rol o'ynagan.^[100] Biroq, uning aksariyat hikoyalari ko'chirilgan tushlar emas. Buning o'rniga ularning ko'plari to'g'ridan-to'g'ri tushlar va xayolparast hodisalar ta'sirida. Lovecraft o'z maktublarida tez-tez o'z belgilarini xayolparastlar bilan taqqoslagan. Ular kabusni boshdan kechirayotgan haqiqiy xayolparast kabi nochor odamlar sifatida tasvirlangan. Uning hikoyalarida ham xayolparast fazilatlar mavjud. The Randolf Karter hikoyalar orzular va haqiqat o'rtasidagi bo'linishni buzadi. The tush ko'radigan joylar yilda Noma'lum Kadatning orzu-qidiruvi sezgir xayolparastga erishish mumkin bo'lgan umumiy tush dunyosi. Ayni paytda, "Kumush kalit ", Lovecraft tashqi tushlarning mavjudligini anglatuvchi" ichki tushlar "tushunchasini eslatib o'tadi. Burleson bu dekonstruktsiyani taqqoslaydi Karl Jung tushlarning manbai ekanligi haqidagi dalil arxetip afsonalar. Lovecraft's way of writing fiction required both a level of realism and dreamlike elements. Citing Jung, Burleson argues that a writer may create realism by being inspired by dreams.^[101]

Lovecraft's use of Britaniya ingliz tili owes much to his father's influence. He described his father as having been so anglophilic that he was commonly presumed to be an Englishman. According to Lovecraft, his father had been constantly warned to avoid using Americanized words and phrases. This influence stretched beyond Lovecraft's use of language. His father's anglophilia had also caused Lovecraft to have a deep affection for Britaniya madaniyati va Britaniya imperiyasi.^[102]

Mavzular

Ushbu bo'lim ehtimol o'z ichiga oladi materialning sintezi bunday emas ishonchli tarzda eslatib o'tamiz yoki aloqador asosiy mavzuga. Tegishli munozarani munozara sahifasi. (2009 yil fevral) (Ushbu shablon xabarini qanday va qachon olib tashlashni bilib oling)

Several themes recur in Lovecraft's stories:

Forbidden knowledge

Forbidden, dark, esoterically veiled knowledge is a central theme in many of Lovecraft's works. The awe and dread described by the characters in Lovecraft's weird fiction baffle them; they are stunned as their minds struggle to comprehend the alien things before them. They can only describe their own sensations in the presence of great horrors, such as the way the beings smell or what horrible sounds they make. The scientists of Lovecraft's stories usual stumble while trying to describe the terrible shape of the beings - essentially failing at describing what they actually bor.^[104]

Many of his characters are driven by curiosity or scientific endeavor, and in many of his stories the knowledge they uncover proves Promethean in nature, either filling the seeker with regret for what they have learned, destroying them psychologically, or completely destroying the person who holds the knowledge. ^[105] Some critics argue that this theme is a reflection of Lovecraft's contempt of the world around him, causing him to search inwardly for knowledge and inspiration.^[106]

Non-human influences on humanity

The beings of Lovecraft's miflar often have human servants; Kthulxu, for instance, is worshipped under various names by kultlar among both the Grenlandiyalik Inuit va voodoo circles of Louisiana, and in many other parts of the world.^{[iqtibos kerak ]}

These worshippers served a useful narrative purpose for Lovecraft. Many beings of the Mythos were too powerful to be defeated by human opponents, and so horrific that direct knowledge of them meant insanity for the victim. When dealing with such beings, Lovecraft needed a way to provide ekspozitsiya and build tension without bringing the story to a premature end. Human followers gave him a way to reveal information about their "gods" in a diluted form, and also made it possible for his protagonists to win paltry victories. Lovecraft, like his contemporaries, envisioned "savages" as closer to supernatural knowledge unknown to civilized man.

Taqdir

Often in Lovecraft's works, the protagonist is not in control of his own actions or finds it impossible to change course. Many of his characters would be free from danger if they simply managed to run away; however, this possibility either never arises or is somehow curtailed by some outside force, such as in "Kosmosdan tashqaridagi rang "va"Jodugar uyidagi tushlar ". Often his characters are subject to a compulsive influence from powerful malevolent or indifferent beings. As with the inevitability of one's ancestry, eventually even running away, or death itself, provides no safety (Eshik ostidagi narsa, "Chet el ", Charlz Dekter Uordning ishi). In some cases, this doom is manifest in the entirety of humanity, and no escape is possible (Vaqtdan tashqaridagi soya ).

Another recurring theme in Lovecraft's stories is the idea that descendants in a bloodline can never escape the stain of crimes committed by their forebears, at least if the crimes are atrocious enough. Descendants may be very far removed, both in place and in time (and, indeed, in culpability ), from the act itself, and yet, they may be haunted by the revenant past, e.g. "Devorlardagi kalamushlar ", "Yashirin qo'rquv ", "Marhum Artur Jermin va uning oilasiga oid faktlar ", "Alkimyogar ", Innsmut ustidagi soya, "Sarnatga kelgan azob "va Charlz Dekter Uordning ishi.

Civilization under threat

Lovecraft was familiar with the work of the German conservative-revolutionary theorist Osvald Shpengler, whose pessimistic thesis of the decadence of the modern West formed a crucial element in Lovecraft's overall zamonaviyga qarshi dunyoqarash. Spenglerian imagery of cyclical decay is present in particular in Jinnilik tog'larida. S. T. Joshi, in H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West, places Spengler at the center of his discussion of Lovecraft's political and philosophical ideas.^[107]

Lovecraft wrote to Clark Ashton Smith in 1927: "It is my belief, and was so long before Spengler put his seal of scholarly proof on it, that our mechanical and industrial age is one of frank dekadensiya."^[108] Lovecraft was also acquainted with the writings of another German philosopher of decadence: Fridrix Nitsshe.^[109]

Lovecraft frequently dealt with the idea of tsivilizatsiya struggling against dark, primitive barbarism. In some stories this struggle is at an individual level; many of his qahramonlar are cultured, highly educated men who are gradually corrupted by some obscure and feared influence. In such stories, the la'nat is often a hereditary one, either because of interbreeding with non-humans (e.g., Marhum Artur Jermin va uning oilasiga oid faktlar (1920), Innsmut ustidagi soya (1931)) or through direct magical influence (Charlz Dekter Uordning ishi).^{[iqtibos kerak ]}

In other tales, an entire society is threatened by barbarism. Sometimes the barbarism comes as an external threat, with a civilized race destroyed in war (e.g. "Polaris "). Sometimes, an isolated pocket of humanity falls into decadence and atavizm of its own accord (e.g. "Yashirin qo'rquv "). But most often, such stories involve a civilized culture being gradually undermined by a malevolent underclass influenced by inhuman forces.

Musobaqa

Race is the most controversial aspect of Lovecraft's legacy, expressed in many disparaging remarks against the various non-Anglo-Saxon irqlar and cultures in his work. As he grew older, his original Anglo-Saxon racial worldview softened into a classism or elitism which regarded the superior race to include all those self-ennobled through high culture. From the start, Lovecraft did not hold all oq tanlilar in uniform high regard, but rather esteemed the English people and those of English descent.^[110] He praised non-WASP groups such as Hispanics and Jews; however, his private writings on groups such as qora tanli odamlar, Irish Catholics and German immigrants were consistently negative.^{[111][sahifa kerak ]}

In an early poem, the 1912 "On the Creation of Niggers ", Lovecraft describes black people not as human but as "beast[s] ... in semi-human figure, filled with vice." In his early published essays, private letters and personal utterances, he argued for a strong rang chizig'i to preserve race and culture.^[112] He made these arguments by direct disparagement of various races in his journalism and letters,^[80] and perhaps allegorically in his fiction concerning non-human races.^[113]

Lovecraft showed sympathy to those who adopted Western culture, even to the extent of marrying a Jewish woman whom he viewed as "well assimilated."^[114] By the 1930s, Lovecraft's views on ethnicity had shifted to support for cultural integrity; he supported the preservation of a nation's culture for its own sake.^[115] Lovecraft's racial attitudes were common in the society of his day, especially in the New England in which he grew up.^[116]

Risks of a scientific era

At the turn of the 20th century, humanity's increased reliance upon science was both opening new worlds and solidifying understanding of ours. Lovecraft portrays this potential for a growing gap of man's understanding of the universe as a potential for horror, most notably in "The Colour Out of Space", where the inability of science to comprehend a contaminated meteorite leads to horror.

Uchun maktubda James F. Morton in 1923, Lovecraft specifically pointed to Albert Eynshteyn "s theory on relativity as throwing the world into chaos and making the cosmos a jest; in a letter to Woodburn Harris in 1929, he speculated that technological comforts risk the collapse of science. Indeed, at a time when men viewed science as limitless and powerful, Lovecraft imagined alternative potential and fearful outcomes. In "The Call of Cthulhu", Lovecraft's characters encounter architecture which is "abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours."^[117] Evklid bo'lmagan geometriya is the mathematical language and background of Einstein's umumiy nisbiylik nazariyasi, and Lovecraft references it repeatedly in exploring alien arxeologiya.

Religion and superstition

Lovecraft's works are ruled by several distinct pantheons of deities (actually aliens worshiped as gods by humans) who are either indifferent or actively hostile to humanity. Lovecraft's personal philosophy has been termed "cosmic indifference" and this is expressed in his fiction.^[118] Several of Lovecraft's stories of the Old Ones (alien beings of the Cthulhu Mythos) propose alternate mythic human origins in contrast to those found in the yaratish stories of existing religions, expanding on a natural world view. For instance, in Lovecraft's Jinnilik tog'larida, it is proposed that humankind was actually created as a slave race by the Old Ones, and that life on Earth as we know it evolved from scientific experiments abandoned by the Elder Things.^[119]

Protagonist characters in Lovecraft are usually educated men, citing scientific and rational evidence to support their non-faith. "Gerbert Uest - Reanimator " reflects on the ateizm common in academic circles. In "Kumush kalit "belgi Randolf Karter loses the ability to dream and seeks solace in religion, specifically Jamiyatparvarlik, but does not find it and ultimately loses faith.

Lovecraft himself adopted the stance of atheism early in life. In 1932, he wrote in a letter to Robert E. Xovard:

All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hairsplitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory, I am an agnostik, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist."^[120]

In 1926, famed sehrgar va qochib ketgan Garri Xudini asked Lovecraft to ghostwrite a treatise exploring the topic of superstition. Houdini's unexpected death later that year halted the project, but Xurofot saratoni was partially completed by Lovecraft along with collaborator Kichik C. M. Eddi A previously unknown manuscript of the work was discovered in 2016 in a collection owned by a magic shop. The book states "all superstitious beliefs are relics of a common 'prehistoric ignorance' in humans," and goes on to explore various superstitious beliefs in different cultures and times."^[121]

Lovecraft Country

Lovecraft drew extensively from his native New England for settings in his fiction. Numerous historical cities and towns are mentioned, and several fictionalised versions of them make frequent appearances in his stories.^{[n 5]} These municipalities are located in the western half of a fictionalized Massachusetts. The exact locations of these municipalities were subject to change with Lovecraft's shifting literary needs. Starting with areas that he thought were evocative, Lovecraft redefined and exaggerated them under fictional names. For example, Lovecraft renamed the town of Oaxam to Arkham and expanded it to include a nearby landmark.^[122]

Tanqidiy qabul

Within the genre

By 1957, Floyd C. Geyl ning Galaxy Ilmiy Fantastika said that "like R. E. Howard, Lovecraft seemingly goes on forever; the two decades since their death are as nothing. In any event, they appear more prolific than ever. What with lager, Nyberg and Derleth avidly rooting out every scrap of their writings and expanding them into novels, there may never be an end to their posthumous careers."^[123] Ga binoan Joys Kerol Oates, Lovecraft (and Edgar Allan Po in the 19th century) has exerted "an incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction."^[124] Horror, fantasy, and science fiction author Stiven King called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."^[125] King has made it clear in his semi-autobiographical non-fiction book Danse Macabre that Lovecraft was responsible for his own fascination with horror and the macabre and was the largest influence on his writing.^[126]

Adabiy

Early efforts to revise an established literary view of Lovecraft as an author of 'pulp' were resisted by some eminent critics; 1945 yilda, Edmund Uilson sneered: "the only real horror in most of these fictions is the horror of bad taste and bad art." However, Wilson praised Lovecraft's ability to write about his chosen field; he described him as having written about it "with much intelligence."^[127] According to L. Sprague de Camp, Wilson later improved his opinion of Lovecraft, citing a report of David Chavchavadze that Wilson had included a Lovecraftian reference in Little Blue Light: A Play in Three Acts. After Chavchavadze met with him to discuss this, Wilson revealed that he had been reading a copy of Lovecraft's correspondence.^{[n 6][128]} Mystery and Adventure sharhlovchi Will Cuppy ning New York Herald Tribune recommended to readers a volume of Lovecraft's stories, asserting that "the literature of horror and macabre fantasy belongs with mystery in its broader sense."^[129]

Galaxy Ilmiy Fantastika reviewer Floyd C. Gale said that "Lovecraft at his best could build a mood of horror unsurpassed; at his worst, he was laughable."^[123] 1962 yilda, Kolin Uilson, in his survey of anti-realist trends in fiction The Strength to Dream, cited Lovecraft as one of the pioneers of the "assault on rationality" and included him with M. R. Jeyms, H. G. Uells, Aldous Xaksli, J. R. R. Tolkien and others as one of the builders of mythicised realities contending against the failing project of literary realism.^{[iqtibos kerak ]} Subsequently, Lovecraft began to acquire the status of a cult writer in the qarshi madaniyat of the 1960s, and reprints of his work proliferated.^[130]

Maykl Dirda, sharhlovchi Times adabiy qo'shimchasi, has described Lovecraft as being a "visionary" who is "rightly regarded as second only to Edgar Allan Poe in the annals of American supernatural literature." According to him, Lovecraft's works prove that mankind cannot bear the weight of reality, as the true nature of reality cannot be understood by either science or history. In addition, Dirda praises Lovecraft's ability to create an uncanny atmosphere. This atmosphere is created through the feeling of wrongness that pervades the objects, places, and people in Lovecraft's works. He also comments favorably on Lovecraft's correspondence, and compares him to Horace Walpole. Particular attention is given to his correspondence with Avgust Derlet and Robert E. Howard. The Derleth letters are called "delightful," while the Howard letters are described as being an ideological debate. Overall, Dirda believes that Lovecraft's letters are equal to, or better than, his fictional output.^[131]

Los-Anjeles kitoblari sharhi sharhlovchi Nik Mamatas stated that Lovecraft was a particularly difficult author, rather than a bad one. He described Lovecraft as being "perfectly capable" in the fields of story logic, pacing, innovation, and generating quotable phrases. However, Lovecraft's difficulty made him ill-suited to the pulps; he was unable to compete with the popular recurring protagonists and qayg'uli qiz hikoyalar. Furthermore, he compared a paragraph from Vaqtdan tashqaridagi soya to a paragraph from the introduction to Tinchlikning iqtisodiy oqibatlari. In Mamatas' view, Lovecraft's quality is obscured by his difficulty, and his skill is what has allowed his following to outlive the followings of other prominent authors, such as Seabury Quinn va Kennet Patchen.^[132]

2005 yilda Amerika kutubxonasi published a volume of Lovecraft's works. This volume was reviewed by many publications, including The New York Times Book Review va The Wall Street Journal, and sold 25,000 copies within a month of release. The overall critical reception of the volume was mixed.^[133] Several scholars, including S. T. Joshi and Alison Sperling, have said that this confirms H. P. Lovecraft's place in the western canon.^[134]

Ning muharrirlari The Age of Lovecraft, Carl H. Sederholm and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, attributed the rise of mainstream popular and academic interest in Lovecraft to this volume, along with the Pingvin klassiklari jildlar va Zamonaviy kutubxona nashri Jinnilik tog'larida. These volumes led to a proliferation of other volumes containing Lovecraft's works. According to the two authors, these volumes are part of a trend in Lovecraft's popular and academic reception: increased attention by one audience causes the other to also become more interested. Lovecraft's success is, in part, the result of his success.^[135]

Lovecraft's style has often been subject to criticism,^[92] but scholars such as S. T. Joshi have shown that Lovecraft consciously utilized a variety of literary devices to form a unique style of his own – these include prose-poetic rhythm, stream of consciousness, alliteratsiya va ongli archaism (largely in his pre-1921 works).^[136]

Falsafiy

Faylasuf Grem Xarman, seeing Lovecraft as expressing a unique—though implicit—antireductionist ontologiya, writes: "No other writer is so perplexed by the gap between objects and the power of language to describe them, or between objects and the qualities they possess."^[137]Harman said of leading figures at the initial spekulyativ realizm conference (which included philosophers Kventin Meylsassu, Rey Brassier va Ieyn Xemilton Grant ) that, though they shared no philosophical heroes, all were enthusiastic readers of Lovecraft.^{[iqtibos kerak ]}

Speculative realists, Mark Fisher and other contemporary philosophers, took Lovecraft seriously, mainly because Lovecraft's weird fictional world, had nothing to do with the Gothic's insistence on the supernatural, but presented another undeniable but incomprehensible reality. Olimning fikriga ko'ra S. T. Joshi: "There is never an entity in Lovecraft that is not in some fashion material."^[138] Faylasuf Evgeniy Taker echoes this in his "Horror of Philosophy" series of books, finding in Lovecraft's ideas a "cold rationalism" or "cosmic pessimism" that highlights the limitations of anthropocentric thinking.^{[139][sahifa kerak ]} Thacker at one point characterizes this as a tension between "I can't believe what I see" and "I can't see what I believe."^[140]

2010s and 2020s reception

Several media outlets published articles discussing Lovecraft's legacy as a horror fiction writer, with many outlets in the 2010s discussing and criticizing Lovecraft's racism and homophobia.^[141] Ommaviy kitoblar connected Lovecraft's upbringing in Providence to the "racism, homophobia, misogyny, and general paroxializm " found in his personal beliefs and work, calling it "unquestionably rooted in places, aesthetics, and an idiosyncratic sense of local culture."^[142] The African-American fantasy writer N. K. Jemisin considers Lovecraft's racial attitudes essential to his literary world: "his biases were the basis of his horror. ... He does some incredible imagery, it's powerful work, but it's frightening ... because it's a way to look into the mind of a true bigot, and realize just how alien their thinking is, just how disturbing their ability to dehumanize their fellow human beings is".^[143]

Birinchi World Fantasy Awards were held in Providence in 1975. The theme was "The Lovecraft Circle." Until 2015, winners were presented with an elongated bust of Lovecraft that was designed by karikaturachi Gahan Uilson, nicknamed the "Howard."^[141] In November 2015 it was announced that the World Fantasy Award trophy would no longer be modeled on H. P. Lovecraft.^[144] After the World Fantasy Award dropped their connection to Lovecraft, Atlantika commented that "In the end, Lovecraft still wins—people who've never read a page of his work will still know who Cthulhu is for years to come, and his legacy lives on in the work of Stiven King, Gilyermo del Toro va Nil Geyman."^[141]

In 2020, Lovecraft was awarded the 1945 Retro-Hugo Award for Best Series for the Cthulhu Mythos.^[145]

Meros

H. P. Lovecraft memorial plaque at 22 Prospect Street in Dalil.

Ushbu bo'lim uchun qo'shimcha iqtiboslar kerak tekshirish. Iltimos yordam bering ushbu maqolani yaxshilang tomonidan ishonchli manbalarga iqtiboslarni qo'shish. Ma'lumot manbasi bo'lmagan materialga qarshi chiqish va olib tashlash mumkin. (2012 yil may) (Ushbu shablon xabarini qanday va qachon olib tashlashni bilib oling)

Lovecraft was relatively unknown during his lifetime.^[146] While his stories appeared in prominent pulp magazines such as G'alati ertaklar (eliciting letters of outrage as often as praise from regular readers), not many people knew his name. He did, however, correspond regularly with other contemporary writers such as Clark Ashton Smith and August Derleth,^[147] who became his good friends, even though he never met them in person. This group became known as the "Lovecraft Circle," since their writing freely borrowed Lovecraft's motifs, with his encouragement: the mysterious books with disturbing names such as the Nekronomikon, the pantheon of ancient alien entities such as Cthulhu and Azathoth, and eldritch places such as the ill-omened New England town of Arkham va uning Miskatonik universiteti.

After Lovecraft's death, the Lovecraft Circle carried on. August Derleth in particular added to and expanded on Lovecraft's vision, not without controversy. While Lovecraft considered his pantheon of alien gods a mere plot device, Derleth created an entire cosmology, complete with a war between the good Oqsoqol xudolar va yovuzlik Tashqi xudolar, kabi Kthulxu and his ilk. The forces of good were supposed to have won, locking Cthulhu and others beneath the earth, the ocean, and elsewhere. Derleth's Cthulhu Mythos stories went on to associate different gods with the traditional four elements of fire, air, earth and water — an artificial constraint which required rationalizations on Derleth's part as Lovecraft himself never envisioned such a scheme.^[1]

Lovecraft's writing, particularly the so-called Cthulhu Mythos, has influenced fiction authors including modern horror and fantasy writers. Stiven King,^[125] Ramsey Kempbell,^[148] Alan Mur,^[149] Djunji Ito,^[150] Tomas Ligotti,^[151] Kaitlin R. Kiernan,^[152] Uilyam S. Burrouz,^[153] va Nil Geyman,^[154] have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences. Beyond direct adaptation, Lovecraft and his stories have had a profound impact on popular culture. Some influence was direct, as he was a friend, inspiration, and correspondent to many of his contemporaries, such as August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch and Fritz Leyber.^[148]

Many later figures were influenced by Lovecraft's works, including author and artist Kliv Barker,^[155] prolific horror writer Stephen King,^[148] comics writers Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman^[156] va Mayk Minola,^[157] Ingliz muallifi Kolin Uilson, kinorejissyorlar John Carpenter,^[146] Styuart Gordon, Gilyermo del Toro,^[156] va rassom H. R. Giger.^[158]

Japan has also been significantly inspired and terrified by Lovecraft's creations and thus even entered the manga va Anime ommaviy axborot vositalari. Chiaki J. Konaka is an acknowledged disciple and has participated in Cthulhu Mythos, expanding several Japanese versions, and is credited for spreading the influence of Lovecraft among the anime base.^[159]

Argentinalik yozuvchi Xorxe Luis Borxes wrote his short story "Yana narsalar bor " in memory of Lovecraft. Contemporary French writer Mishel Houellebek wrote a literary biography, H. P. Lovecraft: Dunyoga qarshi, hayotga qarshi. Prolific American writer Joyce Carol Oates wrote an introduction for a collection of Lovecraft stories. The Amerika kutubxonasi published a volume of Lovecraft's work in 2005, a reversal of the traditional judgment that there "has been nothing so far from the accepted kanon as Lovecraft."^[160] French philosophers Gilles Deleuze va Feliks Gvatari refer to Lovecraft in Ming plato, calling the short story "Kumush kalit eshigi orqali " one of his masterpieces.^[161]

Groups of enthusiasts annually observe the anniversaries of Lovecraft's death at Ladd rasadxonasi and of his birth at his grave site. In July 2013, the Providence City Council designated "H. P. Lovecraft Memorial Square" and installed a commemorative sign at the intersection of Angell and Prospect streets, near the author's former residences.^[162] In 2016, Lovecraft was inducted into the Pop madaniyati muzeyi 's Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.^[163]

Musiqa

Lovecraft's fictional Mythos has influenced a number of musicians, especially in rok musiqasi. The psixedel toshi guruh H. P. Lovecraft (who shortened their name to Lovecraft and then Love Craft in the 1970s) released the albums H. P. Lovecraft va H. P. Lovecraft II in 1967 and 1968 respectively; their songs included "Oq kema " and "At the Mountains of Madness", both titled after Lovecraft stories. Bill Traut and George Badonsky, who set up Dunwich Records, were fans of the author and gained August Derleth's permission to use Lovecraft's name for the band.^[164]

Metallika recorded a song inspired by "The Call of Cthulhu", an instrumental titled Ktuluning chaqiruvi, a song based on Innsmut ustidagi soya sarlavhali Bo'lmasligi kerak bo'lgan narsa va boshqasiga asoslangan Frank Belknap Long "s Tindalosning ovlari sarlavhali Hamma kabus uzoq. Later, they released the song Boshqa orzu qilmang, which mentions the awakening of Cthulhu.^[165] Texnik o'lim metall kiyim Bekor qilish frequently write songs based on Lovecraft's stories and often use him as inspiration in their original works.^[166] Tillsning qorong'u qismi have referenced Lovecraft's works in songs such as "Shoggoths Away" and albums such as Cthulhu Strikes Back. According to Gary Hill's The Strange Sounds of Cthulhu, their band's raison d'être is to reference Lovecraft's tales. Their name is derived from a line in "Qabr ".^[167]

O'yinlar

Lovecraft has also influenced gaming, despite having hated games during his lifetime.^[168] Xaosium "s rol o'ynaydigan stol usti Cthulhu-ga qo'ng'iroq qilish, released in 1981 and currently in its seventh major edition, was one of the first games to draw heavily from Lovecraft. Novel to the game was the Lovecraft-inspired aqldan ozish mechanic, which allowed for o'yinchi belgilar to go insane from contact with cosmic horrors. This mechanic would go on to make appearance in subsequent table top and video O'yinlar.^[169]

1987 saw the release of one of the first Lovecraftian taxta o'yinlar, Arkxam dahshati, which sold extremely well, and since 2004 is still in print from Fantasy Flight Games. Though few subsequent Lovecraftian board games were released annually from 1987 to 2014, the years after 2014 saw a surge in the number of Lovecraftian board games, possibly because of the entry of Lovecraft's work into the jamoat mulki combined with a revival of interest in board games.^[170]

Few video games are direct adaptations of Lovecraft's works, but many video games have been inspired or heavily influenced by Lovecraft.^[169] The massively-multiplayer online game Warcraft dunyosi tomonidan Blizzard Entertainment has continually revealed more of the origin story of the game's playable world to the players, most of which very closely mirrors Lovecraft's work or Derleth's expansion onto the author's original content.^[171] Dahshatli o'yinlar especially can incorporate Cthulthean terrors, despite the conflict between "act-and-prevail" nature of video games and the cosmic hopelessness of Lovecraftian horror. Besides employing Cthulthean antagonists, games that invoke Lovecraftian horror have used mechanics such as insanity effects, or even to'rtinchi devor breaking effects that suggest to players that something has gone wrong with their o'yin konsollari.^[172]

Religion and occultism

Several contemporary religions have drawn influence from the works of Lovecraft. The Satanic Rituals, written either by Anton LaVey or Michael A. Aquino, includes an essay which claims that the works of Lovecraft carry a partial truth, used in the same symbolic manner as Shayton. Kennet Grant ning Typhonian ordeni incorporated Lovecraft's Mythos into his ritual and occult system, but in a more direct and literal sense than the Church of Satan. However, the Typhonian Order does not consider the entities to be directly existent, but rather a symbol through which people may interact with something inhuman.^[173]

There have been several books that have claimed to be an authentic edition of Lovecraft's Nekronomikon.^[174] The Simon Nekronomikon shunday misollardan biri. It was written by an unknown figure who identified themselves as "Simon." Piter Levenda, an occult author who has written about the Nekronomikon, claims that he and "Simon" came across a hidden Greek translation of the grimoire while looking through a collection of antiquities at a New York bookstore during the 1960s or 1970s.^[175] This book was claimed to have born the seal of the Nekronomikon. Levenda went on to claim that Lovecraft had access to this purported scroll.^[176] A textual analysis has determined that the contents of this book were derived from multiple documents that discuss Mesopotamiya afsonasi va sehr. The finding of a magical text by monks is also a common theme in the history of grimoires.^[177] It has been suggested that Lavenda is the true author of the Simon Nekronomikon.^[178]

Lovecraft in fiction

Ushbu bo'lim juda ko'p narsalarga tayanadi ma'lumotnomalar ga asosiy manbalar. Iltimos, ushbu bo'limni qo'shib yaxshilang ikkilamchi yoki uchinchi darajali manbalar. (2020 yil yanvar) (Ushbu shablon xabarini qanday va qachon olib tashlashni bilib oling)

Aside from his appearance in Robert Bloch "s Yulduzlardan kelgan shambler,^[179] Lovecraft continues to be used as a character in supernatural fiction. Richard A. Lupoff "s Lovecraft kitobi (1985), O'limga olib keladigan sehrni qiling (1991), Nekronomikon (1993), Jodugar ovi (1994), Aqldan: H. P. Lovecraftning hikoyalari (1998), Stargate SG-1: Rozuell (2007) va Alan Mur 's comic Dalil (2015-17). Lovecraft also appears in the Season 6, Episode 21 episode Qon ketishiga ruxsat bering teleshousining G'ayritabiiy. A satirical version of Lovecraft named H. P. Hatecraft appeared as a recurring character on the Multfilm tarmog'i teleseriallar Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. Another character based on Lovecraft appears in Archi bilan keyingi hayot.^[180]

He appears as a minor character in Brayan Klivinger komikslar turkumi Atom robosi, as an acquaintance and fellow-scientist of Nikola Tesla, having been driven insane by his involvement in the Tunguska hodisasi which exposed him to the hidden horrors of the wider universe. He is eventually killed when his body becomes host to an extradimensional being infecting the timestream.^{[181][sahifa kerak ]} Lovecraft is a central plot element, as well as a character in Paul La Farge 2017 yilgi roman, The Night Ocean.^[182] Yapon manga va animalarida Bungo uysiz itlari there is a character known as Howard Phillips Lovecraft who, like other characters in the series, is named after great literates. His power, "The Great Old Ones" pays homage to his classic short story, "The Call of Cthulhu" which grants him the ability of transforming himself into an octopus-like monster resembling Cthulhu.^{[183][sahifa kerak ]}

Editions and collections of works

Ushbu bo'lim uchun qo'shimcha iqtiboslar kerak tekshirish. Iltimos yordam bering ushbu maqolani yaxshilang tomonidan ishonchli manbalarga iqtiboslarni qo'shish. Ma'lumot manbasi bo'lmagan materialga qarshi chiqish va olib tashlash mumkin. (2012 yil may) (Ushbu shablon xabarini qanday va qachon olib tashlashni bilib oling)

For most of the 20th century, the definitive editions (specifically Jinnilik tog'larida va boshqa romanlarda, Dagon va boshqa Macabre ertaklari, The Dunwich Horror and Othersva Muzeydagi dahshat va boshqa tahrir) of his prose fiction were published by Arkham uyi, a publisher originally started with the intent of publishing the work of Lovecraft, but which has since published a considerable amount of other literature as well.

Pingvin klassiklari has at present issued three volumes of Lovecraft's works: Cthulhu chaqiruvi va boshqa g'alati hikoyalar, The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories va yaqinda The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories. They collect the standard texts as edited by S. T. Joshi, most of which were available in the Arkham House editions, with the exception of the restored text of Vaqtdan tashqaridagi soya dan Jodugar uyidagi tushlar, which had been previously released by small-press publisher Hippokampus matbuoti. In 2005 the prestigious Amerika kutubxonasi canonized Lovecraft with a volume of his stories edited by Piter Straub, and Random House's Zamonaviy kutubxona line have issued the "definitive edition" of Lovecraft's Jinnilik tog'larida (shuningdek, shu jumladan Adabiyotda g'ayritabiiy dahshat ).

In 2014, Liveright Publishing Corp./W. W. Norton published Yangi izohli H. P. Lovecraft, tahrirlangan Leslie S. Klinger, containing 22 of Lovecraft's tales, with an introduction by Alan Mur; in September 2019, the second volume of Klinger's annotations, Yangi izohli H. P. Lovecraft: Arkhamdan tashqarida, containing another 25 of Lovecraft's tales, was published, with an introduction by Viktor LaValle.

Lovecraft's poetry is collected in The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Night Shade Books, 2001), while much of his juvenilia, various essays on philosophical, political and literary topics, antiquarian travelogues, and other things, can be found in Turli xil yozuvlar (Arkham House, 1989). Lovecraft's essay Adabiyotda g'ayritabiiy dahshat, first published in 1927, is a historical survey of horror literature available with endnotes as Adabiyotda izohli g'ayritabiiy dahshat.

Xatlar

Although Lovecraft is known mostly for his works of weird fiction, the bulk of his writing consists of voluminous letters about a variety of topics, from weird fiction and art criticism to politics and history. Lovecraft's biographer L. Sprague de lager estimates that Lovecraft wrote 100,000 letters in his lifetime, a fifth of which are believed to survive.^[184]

Lovecraft was not an active letter-writer in youth. In 1931 he admitted: "In youth I scarcely did any letter-writing — thanking anybody for a present was so much of an ordeal that I would rather have written a two hundred fifty-line pastoral or a twenty-page treatise on the rings of Saturn." (SL 3.369–70). The initial interest in letters stemmed from his correspondence with his cousin Phillips Gamwell and his involvement in the amateur journalism movement. Lovecraft's later correspondence was primarily to fellow weird fiction writers, rather than to the amateur journalist friends of his earlier years. He sometimes dated his letters 200 years before the current date, which would have put the writing back in US colonial times, before the Amerika inqilobi (a war that offended his Anglophilia). He explained that he thought that the 18th and 20th centuries were the "best," the former being a period of noble grace, and the latter a century of science.

Lovecraft clearly states that his contact to numerous different people through letter-writing was one of the main factors in broadening his view of the world: "I found myself opened up to dozens of points of view which would otherwise never have occurred to me. My understanding and sympathies were enlarged, and many of my social, political, and economic views were modified as a consequence of increased knowledge."^[185]

There are five publishing houses that have released letters from Lovecraft, most prominently Arkham House with its five-volume edition Tanlangan xatlar (these volumes severely abridge the letters they contain). Other publishers are Hippokampus matbuoti (Letters to Alfred Galpin va boshq.), Tungi soyali kitoblar (Mysteries of Time and Spirit: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft va Donald Wandrei va boshq..), Necronomicon Press (Samuel Loveman va Vincent Starrettga maktublar va boshq.) va Tampa universiteti matbuoti (Ey baxtli Floridian: H. P. Lovecraftning R. H. Barlovga maktublari). S. T. Joshi Lovecraft-ning ma'lum muxbirlarga yozgan xatlar to'plamini davom ettirayotgan jildlar seriyasini nazorat qiladi.

Mualliflik huquqi va boshqa huquqiy muammolar

Aksincha bir nechta da'volarga qaramay, hozirda biron bir kompaniya yoki shaxsga tegishli ekanligi to'g'risida hech qanday dalil yo'q mualliflik huquqi Lovecraftning har qanday ishiga va u odatda o'tgan deb qabul qilinadi jamoat mulki.^[186] The Yevropa Ittifoqi Mualliflik huquqining davomiyligi bo'yicha ko'rsatma 1993 yil mualliflik huquqini muallif vafotidan keyin 70 yilgacha uzaytirdi. Lovecraftning hayoti davomida nashr etilgan barcha asarlari 2008 yil 1 yanvardan boshlab Evropa Ittifoqining barcha 27 mamlakatlarida ommaviy bo'lib qoldi Bern konvensiyasi mualliflik huquqining minimal muddatini amalga oshirgan mamlakatlar mualliflik huquqi muallif vafotidan 50 yil o'tib tugaydi. Qo'shma Shtatlarga kelsak, 1925 yilgacha nashr etilgan barcha ishlar jamoat mulki hisoblanadi. Uning hayoti davomida 1925-1937 yillarda nashr etilgan Lovecraft asarlari mualliflik huquqidan chetda qolishi shubhasiz, chunki har yili 2021 va 2033 yillarda jamoat mulkiga kiradi (1978 yilgacha bo'lgan asarlarda AQShda hayot + 70 qoidasidan foydalanilmaydi).^[187]

Lovecraft bu yosh deb ta'kidlagan edi R. H. Barlow uning ijrochisi bo'lib xizmat qiladi adabiy mulk,^[188] ammo bu ko'rsatmalar vasiyatnomaga kiritilmagan. Shunga qaramay, uning tirik qolgan xolasi uning tilaklarini amalga oshirdi va Barlou Lovecraft vafotidan so'ng ulkan va murakkab adabiy mulkni zimmasiga oldi. Barlow qog'ozlarning asosiy qismini, shu jumladan, katta yozishmalar bilan Jon Xey kutubxonasi va Lovecraft-ning boshqa yozuvlarini tartibga solish va saqlashga harakat qildi. Avgust Derlet Barlovdan ko'ra yoshi kattaroq va taniqli yozuvchi, adabiy mulkni boshqarish uchun kurashgan. Barlow 1951 yilda o'z joniga qasd qildi.^[189]

Lovecraft protégés va Arkham House-ning qism egalari, Avgust Derlet va Donald Vandrey, ko'pincha Lovecraft asarlari ustidan mualliflik huquqlarini talab qilgan. 1947 yil 9 oktyabrda Derleth barcha huquqlarni sotib oldi G'alati ertaklar. Biroq, 1926 yil aprel oyidan boshlab, eng muhimi, Lovecraft nashr etilgan hikoyalarga barcha ikkinchi bosib chiqarish huquqlarini o'zida saqlab qoldi G'alati ertaklar. G'alati ertaklar Lovecraftning eng ko'p oltita ertaklari huquqiga ega bo'lishi mumkin. Shunga qaramay, Derlet Lovecraftning ertaklariga mualliflik huquqini olgan bo'lsa ham, mualliflik huquqlari yangilanganligi to'g'risida hech qanday dalil yo'q. 1971 yilda Derletning o'limidan so'ng, uning advokati Lovecraftning barcha adabiy materiallari Derleth mulkining bir qismi ekanligini va "iloji boricha himoya qilinishini" e'lon qildi.^[186]

S. T. Joshi o'zining Lovecraft haqidagi biografiyasida Derletning da'volari "deyarli aniq xayoliy" degan xulosaga keladi va havaskor matbuotda chop etilgan Lovecraftning aksariyat asarlari, ehtimol, endi jamoat mulki hisoblanadi. Lovecraft asarlarining mualliflik huquqi, uning 1912 yilgi vasiyatnomasida qayd etilgan tirik qolgan yagona merosxo'r, xolasi Enni Gamvellga meros bo'lib o'tgan bo'lar edi. 1941 yilda Gamwell vafot etganida, mualliflik huquqi qolgan avlodlariga, Ethel Fillips Morrish va Edna Lyuisga o'tib, keyinchalik hujjatni imzolagan, ba'zan Morrish-Lyuis sovg'asi deb nomlangan va Arkham uyiga Lovecraft asarlarini qayta nashr etishga ruxsat berib, o'zlarining mualliflik huquqlarini saqlab qolishgan. . Qidiruvlari Kongress kutubxonasi ushbu mualliflik huquqlari 28 yillik davrdan keyin yangilanganligi to'g'risida hech qanday dalil topa olmadi, shuning uchun ushbu asarlar endi jamoat mulki hisoblanadi.^{[iqtibos kerak ]}

Xaosium, nashriyotchilari Cthulhu-ga qo'ng'iroq qilish rol o'ynash o'yini, ushbu iborada savdo belgisiga ega bo'ling Ktulxuning chaqirig'i o'yin mahsulotlarida foydalanish uchun. TSR, Inc., asl noshiri Rivojlangan Dungeons & Dragons rol o'ynash o'yini, o'yinning oldingi qo'shimchalaridan birida Cthulhu Mythos haqidagi bo'limni o'z ichiga olgan, Ilohlar va Yarim xudolar (dastlab 1980 yilda nashr etilgan va keyinchalik nomi o'zgartirilgan Afsonalar va Lore). Keyinchalik TSR Chaosiumning iltimosiga binoan ushbu bo'limni olib tashlashga rozi bo'ldi.^{[iqtibos kerak ]}

Lovecraft asarlari bilan bog'liq huquqiy kelishmovchiliklardan qat'i nazar, Lovecraft o'zi ham o'z asarlari bilan juda saxiy edi va boshqalarni o'z hikoyalaridan g'oyalar olishga va ularga asos solishga, xususan o'zining Cthulhu Mythos-ga nisbatan da'vat etgan. U boshqa yozuvchilarni uning ijodiga murojaat qilishga undadi, masalan Nekronomikon, Cthulhu va Yog-Sotot.^[190] Uning vafotidan keyin ko'plab yozuvchilar hikoyalar yozdilar va Kthulxu mifosining umumiy mifologiyasini boyitdilar, shuningdek uning asariga ko'plab havolalar qildilar.

Bibliografiya

Shuningdek qarang

• Turkum: H. P. Lovecraft olimlari

Izohlar

Adabiyotlar

Manbalar

Qo'shimcha o'qish

Tashqi havolalar

• Lovecraft yillik
• H. P. Lovecraft arxivi
• H. P. Lovecraft tarixiy jamiyati
• H. P. Lovecraft da Internet-spekulyativ fantastika ma'lumotlar bazasi
• H. P. Lovecraft da Ilmiy fantastika entsiklopediyasi
• H. P. Lovecraft kuni IMDb
• H. P. Lovecraft diskografiya Discogs

Kutubxona fondlari

• Howard P. Lovecraft to'plami da Maxsus to'plamlarda Jon Xey kutubxonasi (Braun universiteti )
• H. P. Lovecraft to'plami ning o'ziga xos to'plamlarida Falvey yodgorlik kutubxonasi (Villanova universiteti )

Onlayn nashrlar

• Howard Phillips Lovecraft tomonidan yaratilgan da Gutenberg loyihasi
• H. P. Lovecraftning asarlari da Xira sahifa (Kanada)
• H. P. Lovecraft tomonidan yoki uning asarlari da Internet arxivi
• H. P. Lovecraftning asarlari da LibriVox (jamoat domenidagi audiokitoblar)