Monday, January 18, 2021
Welcome to Family Emulation
Anne & Christopher Rice,
A Family Fiction
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/anne-christopher-rice-a-family-fiction-df83915cebb6
I am
in the process of fulfilling an important piece of research on Anne Rice’s
novel Merrick, and the use of magic in the novel along with various references
to cultures where magic is or was fundamental. She refers to Voodoo, Candomblé,
Maya, Olmec, and even older rites and magics enabling contact with spirits,
ghosts, and other supernatural beings within two fictional contexts she has
used in many books, the Mayfair witches and Lestat de Lioncourt’s vampires,
plus a millennium-old secret society observing and researching the fields of
paranormal capabilities, the Talamasca.
Within
this research, I have hereby collected all the reviews on Anne Rice, and
Christopher Rice I could find in my readable computer archives. I am missing
some because at least two diskettes refuse to be read because they were
configured on an old dead Windows 95 IBM computer, at least three technical
generations ago. Sorry about that. I will one day get the hard copies out of
their files and scan them if I can find them, or I will ask a service company
to extract the data from the various diskettes I have, not to mention a Windows
98 computer of the late 1990s.
I
offer you these reviews. There might be some repeats. Sorry about it. They are
in the chronological order of the original publishing dates of the novel. I
have integrated some reviews of Christopher Rice’s works as some kind of dare
or challenge. The mother and the son are quite complementary, cultivating their
own private gardens on their own, with probably some communication between
them.
These
33,000 words are the reviews of most books by AnneRice and Christopher Rice
from which the study on Anne Rice's "Merrick" will be built trying to
elaborate on the theme of magic and various cultural references. Anne Rice and
her son Christopher Rice are both in subnatural and supernatural literature but
they do not compete because they are more complementary than conflictual. In
other words, they each have their own gardens and they do not invade one
another's flowerbeds. Anne Rice is in vampires, werewolves, witches, and
extreme erotic (understatement, rather pornographic) dystopia (though she would
say it is utopia). Christopher Rice is in extreme suspense literature, extreme
violence, and extremely realistic and even graphic eroticism. The early death
of Stan Rice, the husband and father of these writers, was something like a
trauma. Stan Rice was a poet
Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU
Olliergues, January 16, 2021
Éditions La Dondaine, 2021
