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The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box Novel de Mark Gatiss

The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box Novel

Autor Mark Gatiss
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iul 2005

Forța narativă a lui Will Thomas din The Hellfire Conspiracy combinată cu sensibilitatea macabră a lui Deanna Raybourn — dar cu un glas propriu, mult mai exuberant și tăios. Reținem aici o premisă care sfidează convențiile: Lucifer Box nu este doar un dandy faimos în saloanele Londrei, ci și cel mai periculos agent secret al Majestății Sale. Timpul presează. Oamenii de știință dispar. Un asasinat la cină declanșează o cursă contracronometru care ne poartă de la eleganța de pe Downing Street până în măruntaiele vicioase ale Italiei. Descoperim o lume unde umorul de tip Monty Python se ciocnește violent cu teroarea pură. Mark Gatiss, arhitectul modern al seriilor Sherlock și Dracula, își demonstrează aici măiestria în a deconstrui mitul detectivului clasic. Dacă în adaptările sale pentru ecran am văzut o rigoare analitică, în Vesuvius Club el eliberează un personaj hedonist și sclipitor. Ritmul este frenetic. De la atacul unui centiped veninos până la infiltrarea într-o societate secretă care amenință soarta lumii, fiecare capitol pulsează de adrenalină. Stilul este unul „arch wit”, o eleganță lingvistică ce ascunde o cruzime subtilă. Este un amestec exploziv de spionaj istoric și horror gotic, servit cu o ironie fină care amintește de Oscar Wilde, dar cu miza unui thriller contemporan. Totul converge spre ruinele de la Pompeii, unde clubul Vesuvius își ascunde secretele fatale. Merită menționat că această ediție include ilustrații alb-negru integrate, care completează atmosfera de epocă a acestui roman de debut remarcabil.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780743483797
ISBN-10: 0743483790
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: Integrated B&W
Dimensiuni: 5 x 8 x 1 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Ediția:New ed.
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster UK
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Vesuvius Club cititorilor care caută un hibrid între James Bond și Sherlock Holmes, dar cu o doză serioasă de umor negru britanic. Veți câștiga o experiență de lectură vibrantă, unde misterul istoric se împletește cu aventura pură. Este alegerea perfectă dacă ați apreciat Devil in Amber sau stilul narativ din Black Butterfly. Un motiv concret: este un tur de forță stilistic ce reinventează spionajul eduardian.

Despre autor

Mark Gatiss este un scriitor și actor britanic de renume, membru al celebrului grup de comedie „The League of Gentlemen”. Este mintea creativă din spatele adaptărilor fenomen de la BBC, Sherlock și Dracula, fiind recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a infuza viață nouă în miturile clasice ale literaturii. Autor al trilogiei Lucifer Box, Gatiss îmbină pasiunea pentru epoca victoriană și eduardiană cu un talent remarcabil pentru scenaristică și suspans. Lucrările sale sunt marcate de un spirit ludic, dar și de o aplecare către macabru și mister.

Descriere scurtă

An Extraordinary and Death-Defying Tour of Edwardian Low Life and High Society, accompanied by our host Lucifer Box Esq - artist, dandy, rake ... and lethal secret agent.

Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde - society's most fashionable portrait painter is a wit, a dandy, a rake, the guest all hostesses (and not a few hosts) must have.

But few know that Lucifer Box is also His Majesty's most accomplished and daring secret agent. Beneath London's façade of Imperial grandeur and divine aesthetes seethes an underworld of crazed anarchists, murder, and despicable vice, and Box is at home in both.

And so of course when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to.

Lucifer Box ruthlessly deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street (all his father left him), to private stews of London and the seediest, most colourful back alleys of Italy, in search of the mighty secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its claw-like hands - the Vesuvius Club.

Notă biografică

Mark Gatiss is one of The League of Gentlemen from the multi-award winning television show, and the author of the hit novels The Vesuvius Club and its sequel The Devil in Amber. He has also written acclaimed radio and television scripts, including episodes of Doctor Who and Poirot. He has a thick comma of hair that will never stay in place and a rather cruel mouth.

Descriere

 A fiendishly clever and highly entertaining novel from the writer of Dr Who, The League of Gentlemen and Sherlock.

Recenzii

"Self-deprecatingly subtitled "A bit of Fluff..".Gatiss' prose is upholstered in a rather superior grade of fluff: redolent of soft leather chairs in fine gentlemen's establishments, and the cracking of whips in the basements beneath them....Set amid the decadent fleshpots of the Edwardian demi-monde, the novel introduces the raffish toast of London society, Lucifer Box, leading portraitist of the age and undercover agent on behalf of His Majesty's government....Box works his way dandyishly through a sequence of adventures which leads him to penetrate a secret Neapolitan crime ring, plus the willing rinfs of several secretive Neapolitans....perniciously addictive piece of escapism."-- "The Guardian" (London)

"Lucifer Box, society darling and spy, investigates the secret Vesuvius Club. Brilliant stuff."-- "Heat" magazine (UK)

"The preposterous Lucifer is an entertaining hero and "The Vesuvius Club" is a hugely enjoyable romp."-- "Image" magazine (UK)

"Mark Gatiss has brought his customary wit and outlandish style to the page...sharp, witty and shocking."-- "Derby Evening Telegraph" (UK)

"Darkly erudite and fiendishly unputdownable -- Lucifer Box is the most likeable scoundrel since Flashman."-- Jasper Fforde, author of "The Big Over Easy" and "The Eyre Affair"

"Gatiss mixes in "The League of Gentlemen's" penchant for horror with large doses of arch wit and louche laying about. It's Oscar Wilde crossed with H.P. Lovecraft....this could be the bit of fluff you've been looking for."-- "The Telegraph" (London)

"It's Gatiss's impeccable lightness of touch and huge delight in wordplay that makes this a joy. Studded with epigrams, asides, such wonderful names as Strangeways Pugg and Everard Supple, this is a wickedly written romp to put a smile on the face of anyone amused by the strange alchemy of the words 'a peculiar horror of artichokes'"-- "SFX" magazine (UK)

"In the appallingly appealing Lucifer Box, Mark Gatiss has created an anti-hero for the ages. Watching the number of chapters, then pages, dwindle, was heart-rending. No one has ever combined the seedy, the stylish, the rumbustious, the raffish, the egregious, the outrageous, the high and the low with such wit and grace."-- Stephen Fry, author of "Revenge" and "The Liar"

"Plenty of sly comic detail (Box lives at Number 9 Downing Street 'because someone has to') and a surrealist narrative that fans of "The League of Gentlemen" will recognize...kidnapped scientists, poisonous centipedes, foggy chases through London by hackney cab, and a fiendish volcano-based conspiracy that provides the big SFX climax. It's all great fun."-- "Time Out" (London)

"With its quaint dust jacket and Beardsely-inspired illustrations, the book feels like a visitor from a more elegant era; it has the smell of fin de siecle about it....[Lucifer Box] belongs to a lineage which stretches from Sherlock Holmes to the indestructible James Bond, via the queasy phantasmagoria of Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu stories...But Gatiss is more than a "pasticheur;" he has ambitions beyond literary ventriloquism. Midway through the story, Box is revealed to be bisexual, and we feel that this is a novel which Doyle, Stevenson, and Rider Haggard would not have been allowed to write. Giddily inventive and packed with delirious incident, it suggests a post-modern project comparable to Michael Faber's "The Crimson Petal and the White.""-- "The Times Literary Supplement" (London)

'A breathless caper set in Edwardian London. Although it's humbly subtitled 'A Bit of Fluff' it far more resembles the kind of monster fur ball you'd find lurking beneath the bed in a seaside hotel...A stylishly published volume...but beneath all the fuzz lies a genuine darkness'THE OBSERVER

'The most delicious, depraved, inventive, macabre and hilarious literary debut I can think of. In the appallingly appealing Lucifer Box, Mark Gatiss has created an anti-hero for the ages. Watching the number of chapters, then pages, dwindle was heart-rending...no one has ever combined the seedy, the stylish, the rumbustious, the raffish, the egregious, the outrageous, the high and the low with such wit and grace. More, I want more!'Stephen Fry

'With its quaint dust jacket and Beardsley-inspired illustrations, the book feels like a visitor from a more elegant era . . . Giddily inventive and packed with delirious incident, it suggests a post-modern project comparable to Michel Faber's pseudo-Dickensian 'The Crimson Petal and the White'. It is easy to imagine Oscar Wilde, on a chaise longue, smoking an absurdly expensive cigarette, reading THE VESUVIUS CLUB and laughing out loud at its playful decadence and wit. There can surely be no higher praise'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

'If you're going to have humorous pastiche, give me this any day, with its evocations of Edwardian melodrama and derring-do'THE TIMES

'Gatiss mixes in THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN's penchant for horror with large doses of arch wit and louche laying about. It's Oscar Wilde crossed with H.P. Lovecraft....this could be the bit of fluff you've been looking for'THE TELEGRAPH