Author: Anne Rice
Translator: Hye-rim Kim
Publisher: Hwangmae
544 pages | 188*128mm
Series:
- The Vampire Chronicles, Books 1~3 (5-Volume Set)
- The Vampire Chronicles, Book 1 - Interview with the Vampire
- The Vampire Chronicles, Book 2 - The Vampire Lestat (2-Volume Set)
- The Vampire Chronicles, Book 3 - The Queen of the Damned (2-Volume Set)
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About This Book
In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed
the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story
is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss,
an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac
descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is
confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses
Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their "dark
gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the
ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses
the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method
Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis' first-person confession to a
skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a
highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by
entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep
Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical
concerns--the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of
human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more
finite narrator.
While Rice has continued to investigate history, faith, and philosophy
in subsequent Vampire novels (including The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of
the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, and The
Vampire Armand), Interview remains a treasured masterpiece. It is that
rare work that blends a childlike fascination for the supernatural with
a profound vision of the human condition. --Patrick O'Kelley
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