Yeah.. not chivalarous..
thats correct..provide here a critical reading here.. one you come across..
but polished, typifing the euro-aristocart (may be like Luckasc!!!:)
Chuliikad poem is about *malayali dracula*...
But the "real malaylai draculas (not chullikkads) are ....very *
'chivalarous* *...prrrr....and nair like- doing yudham only in the morning
and eating heavily aftrenoon and with an embakkam snoring others to death*"
and kottayam pushapnath has also a novel "Drakulayaude Savamancham" .
malayali draculas like *ada pradhman* made by renowned thrissur chef ambi
swami... than cold or hot blood
On 7/17/08, Bobby Kunhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> There are a number of critical readings of Bram Stoker's Dracula. However,
> I am yet tocome across him as a chivalrous person - a polished,
> intelligent, well-read and suave villain yes
> The point of Kostova's book is that he is seen as a historical persona who
> was on the side of christendom against the Ottomans (Crusades), while in her
> novel itself christendom holds hands with a muslim turkey to defeat Vlad
> Dracula!!!!!!
> I have not read Chullikad's poem, but would definitely like to know more
>
>
> On 17/07/2008, damodar prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Kunhu,
>> {Shall I call like this, there is a sort of cuteness :) .
>> tell my name..
>> damodar prasad. it grinds like a rusted heavy machine of that old mavoor
>> rayons factory.:( }
>>
>> . Ys.. I read the review.. Liked it.
>>
>> Mnw, i cant clearly recollect.. this I read longtime back..
>> There is a critical reading of Bramstoker's dracula. The reading points to
>> the moment of dissection of Draculas' self to a blood thirsty one from the
>> chivalarous knght dracula. It crtical;y points to the 'westren encounter' of
>> the non-european world. Remaining things coming not easily to the mnd now..
>>
>> anyways, there is an interesting historical redaing of draculas' text..
>> not failing to remind of our own chullikad's "Dracula" poem. But am sure
>> some in this group defintely has read this.. Pls. do tell us about it
>>
>> damodar
>>
>>
>> On 7/17/08, Bobby Kunhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> A Guide to Bram Stoker's Dracula
>>> **
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That's what Elizabeth Kostova's novel *A Historian *can be rightly
>>> described. The notes are extensive and Dracula has been historicised. The
>>> Count is brought out of Bram Stoker's Transylvania and from the dark corners
>>> of the numerous Hollywood adaptations of the novel and placed in his
>>> historic context - Vlad III, Vlad Tepes or Vlad Dracula.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Vlad, the ruler of Wallachia and Transylvania, has been an important peg
>>> in the history of the resistance against Ottoman incursions. Supposedly
>>> hostaged by his father to Sultan Mehmet as a young boy in exchange for a
>>> ceasefire, he learnt extensively from his captors, particularly methods of
>>> torture and employed them liberally in his later life as the ruler of
>>> Wallachia and Transylvania, impaling his enemies and earning the epithet of
>>> the *Impaler *for himself. Kostova provides the missing links in
>>> Stoker's novel or rather provides defence against the criticisms of lack of
>>> historicity of the novel.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The novel tells the story of a family of Historians and their friends
>>> piecing together various fragments of evidences in a chase for the tomb of
>>> Vlad Dracula, to destroy him – there are personal passions that drive each
>>> of the protagonists on this macabre trail – for those with a taste for the
>>> supernatural. The novel offers vignettes of a not-much-studied past for
>>> those of us who are fascinated by either history or theology or the history
>>> of theology. It is pieced together through oral narratives, letters between
>>> lovers, parent and child and simple references to texts – a labyrinth of
>>> love stories straddling the horrific.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> But what makes the book beautiful is the way Kostova goes about this. In
>>> the process of writing this novel, Kostova's characters, most of whom are
>>> historians, bring history down from its pedestal of high culture and uses
>>> credible subaltern sources like folklore without any hint of condescension,
>>> navigating through texts with as much alacrity as superstitions and personal
>>> narratives. The text is replete with vampire stories from Romania, the
>>> Balkans, Russia and Turkey and these stories act as the key to the search
>>> for the tomb of Vlad Tepes III
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In the process, Kostova dwells a lot on medieval Central European
>>> History, particularly the skirmishes with the Ottoman Empire, and the role
>>> of the Order of the Dragon (the word Dracul is supposed to be the Romanian
>>> derivative for Dragon), careful enough not to take sides in the process of
>>> telling the story. In fact as a masterstroke, she gets the protagonists to
>>> ally with traditional rivals from the erstwhile Ottoman Empire and with
>>> interesting forays into the former soviet bloc in fighting the dreaded
>>> Dracula – a Vampire.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The flipside of the novel is the uncanny feeling that Kostova is trying
>>> to do a *Da Vinci Code, *especially with pure bloodline bit tracing the
>>> direct descendants of Vlad Dracula. The most touching part of the book is a
>>> post-card written by the Narrator's mother, which in some ways validates
>>> this tracing of the bloodline:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "*My beloved daughter*
>>>
>>> * *
>>>
>>> *When you were born, your hair was black and stuck to your slimy head in
>>> curls. After they washed and dried you, it became a soft down around your
>>> face, dark hair like mine, but also coppery like your father's. I lay in a
>>> pool of morphine, and held you and watched the lights in your newborn hair
>>> change from Gypsy dark to bright, and then back to dark. Everything about
>>> you was polished and shone; I had shaped and polished you inside me without
>>> knowing what I was doing. Your fingers were golden, your cheek was rose,
>>> your eyelashes and eyebrows were the feathers of the baby crow. My happiness
>>> overflowed even the morphine.*
>>>
>>> * *
>>>
>>> *Your Loving Mother*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bobby Kunhu
>>> http://community.eldis.org/myshkin/Blog/
>>> >>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Bobby Kunhu
> http://community.eldis.org/myshkin/Blog/
>
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