Nina Auerbach and David Skal, *Drcula,* Norton Critical edition
Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally, *In Search of Dracula*
Leonard Wolf, *The Essential Dracula*
and many more
On 17/07/2008, damodar prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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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