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Arthur Do

Arthur Make (born March 3, 1863 in Caerleon , Wales, † December 15, 1947 in Beaconsfield , Buckinghamshire) was a Welsh writer of fantastic stories.

Live and act

He was born Arthur Llewellyn Jones, later he called himself Arthur Jones Make. He grew up as the son of a pastor in the Welsh Caerleon-on-Usk (Monmouth, Newport ). He attended a public school, whose educational methods he loathed and a. processed literary in the novel The Secret Glory (1922).

Make studied medicine in London , dropped out after a few semesters and lived through a time of deprivation in which he a. a. tried as translator of Rabelais and Margaret of Navarre . He later dealt with the difficult years in London and his youth in Wales in the novel The Garden of Avallaunius (1904). The literary breakthrough came in 1894 with The Great God Pan , an eerie story that deals with the juxtaposition of the real world and a fantastic parallel world, fed by Celtic / Roman myths .

Make joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ( Aleister Crowley , William Butler Yeats ) and traveled for a few years with a troupe of traveling actors through the country. In addition to his literary work, AM wrote biting literary and theater reviews for various newspapers. A premature malicious obituary for Lord Alfred Douglas , Oscar Wilde's lover , ruined him economically.

In addition to novels, Macht mainly wrote short stories, most of which were about the supernatural. Some of these stories revolve around the writer Dyson, who is embroiled in spooky and criminological adventures. His story The Terror: A Fantasy (1917) possibly provided the idea for Daphne du Maurier's story The Birds (1952), which was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963 . His story The Bowmen (1915) about the intervention of medieval archers on the side of the British in the Battle of Mons (23 August 1914) is significant in terms of reception history . The legend of the angels of Mons was soon understood by many contemporaries as a "real" supernatural event.

A characteristic of making - especially in the novels - is an elegiac language with extensive and enthusiastic descriptions of nature. The theme is often the Celtic / Roman past of Wales and the survival of ancient myths. His heroes are often misunderstood, lonely people. As Borges suggested in his preface to the “Shining Pyramid”, Make felt himself an outsider who had explicitly insisted on his “Celticism” in order to feel doomed to failure, as it were analogous to his ancestors.

The American writer HP Lovecraft was an admirer of and was literarily influenced by it. Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier , the French authors of the 1960 bestseller Le Matin des magiciens (Eng .: Departure into the Third Millennium), paid tribute to the ideas of making in their book.

Works (selection)

As an author

Autobiography

• The autobiography of Arthur Make . Garnstone Press, London 1974, ISBN 0-85511-431-2 (with an introduction by Morchard Bishop).

Letters

• Donald M. Strong Hassler, Sue Strong Hassler (Eds.): Arthur Make & Montgomery Evans. Letters of a Literary Friendship 1923-1947 . University Press, London 1994, ISBN 0-87338-489-X .

Individual works

• Ambassadors of evil . (Original title: The Three Impostors .) Piper Verlag , Munich / Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-492-11402-4 . Extended new edition under the title: The Three Hunters or: The Metamorphoses (see "Work Editions in German").
• The hidden victory . ( The Secret Glory .) Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-492-11406-7 . Extended new edition under the title The Secret Shine. Roman (see "Work Editions in German").
• The shining pyramid . Book guild Gutenberg , Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-7632-5816-1 (edited by Jorge Luis Borges in the library of Babel ).
• Fear and horror . ( The Terror: A Fantasy .) Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-492-11401-6 .
• The white figures . ( The Shining Pyramid ao ) Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-492-11403-2 .
• The big pan . ( The Great God Pan .) Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-492-11404-0 .
• The mountain of dreams . ( The Garden of Avallaunius .), Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-492-11405-9 .
• The black seal . ( Novel of the Black Seal .) JMB Verlag , Hannover 2018, ISBN 978-3-95945-002-7 .

Work edition in English

• The Caerleon edition of the works of Arthur Make . Caermaen Books, Oxford 1923 ff

1. The great god Pan. The inmost light. The red hand .
2. The three impostors .
3. The hill of dreams .
4. The secret glory .
5. The hieroglyphics .
6. A fragment of life. The white people .
7. The terror. The bowmen. The great return .
8. Far off things .
9. Things near and far ; New edition: Newport, South Wales: Three Impostors, 2015, ISBN 978-1-78461-190-3 .

Editions of works in German

• Works in six volumes . Berlin: Elfenbein Verlag , 2019 ff.

1. The three hunters or: the metamorphoses . With the story "The Lost Club", translated for the first time. Translated from English, with an afterword and an introduction to the edition by Joachim Kalka. Berlin: Ivory, 2019, ISBN 978-3-96160-021-2 . (Works Vol. 1)
2. The secret shine. Novel . With the first translated sketches "The Holy Things" and "Psychology". Translated from English and provided with an afterword by Joachim Kalka. Berlin: Ivory, 2019, ISBN 978-3-96160-022-9 . (Works Vol. 2)

Another edition plan according to the publisher: The horror. A fantasy (works vol. 3), the shining pyramid and other stories (works vol. 4), the great pan and other stories (works vol. 5), the mountain of dreams. Roman (Works Vol. 6)

• Works. In six volumes . Munich: Piper, 1993/94. (Translated by Joachim Kalka , paperback edition).

1. Fear and horror. Novel . 1993, ISBN 3-492-11401-6 .
2. Ambassadors of evil. Novel . 1993, ISBN 3-492-11402-4 .
3. The white figures. Narratives . 1993, ISBN 3-492-11403-2 .
4. The big pan. Narratives . 1994, ISBN 3-492-11404-0 .
5. The mountain of dreams. An artist novel . 1994, ISBN 3-492-11405-9 .
6. The hidden victory. Novel . 1994, ISBN 3-492-11406-7 .

As translator

• Margaret of Navarre : Heptaméron . London 1886.

literature

• Sara Bjärstorp: The margins of writing. A study of Arthur Make and thew literary field of the 189s . Dissertation, Lund University 2005.
• John Gawsworth: The life of Arthur Make . Tartarus Press Lewes 2005, ISBN 1-872621-81-3 .
• Adrian Goldstone: Bibliography of Arthur Make . Haskell House, New York 1973, ISBN 0-8383-1614-X (reprinted from London 1923 edition).
• Lena Klassen : Arthur Machen's fantastic room. Space and mood as the basis of fantastic storytelling (Fantasia series; Vol. 36). First German Fantasy-Club, Passau 2000, ISBN 3-932621-35-2 .
• Russell F. Letson: The approaches to mystery. The fantasies of Arthur Make and Algernon Blackwood . Dissertation, Southern Illinois University 1974.
• Louis Pauwels, Jacques Bergier: Les matins des magiciens . Gallimard, Paris 1975.
  • Departure into the third millennium. From the future of fantastic reason . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-442-14015-3 , pp. 281 ff (reprint of the Munich 1962 edition).
• Aidan Reynolds, Charlton William: Arthur Make. A short account of his life and work . Caermaen Books, Oxford 1988, ISBN 0-948482-06-0 (reprint of London 1963 edition).
• Julie Speedie: Arthur Make and the "The Sphinx" . Tartarus Press, Lewes 1992, ISBN 1-872621-08-2 .
• Wesley D. Sweetser: Arthur Make (Twayne's English Authors Series; Vol. 8). Twayne Publ., New York 1964.
• Mark Valentine (Ed.): Arthur Make. Apostle of Wonder . Caermaen Books, Oxford 1985, ISBN 0-948482-00-1 .
• Martin T. Willis: Scientific portraits in magical frames. The construction of prenatural narrative in the work of ETA Hoffmann and Arthurmachen . In: extrapolation. A journal of science fiction and fantasy , Vol. 35 (1994), Issue 3. pp. 186-200, ISSN  0741-2231

Web links

Commons : Arthur Make  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Arthur Make in the catalog of the German National Library
• Arthur Machen in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Arthur Make at Open Library