Madeleine E. by Gabriel Blackwell

Author:Gabriel Blackwell [Blackwell, Gabriel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography, Non-Fiction, Novelists, Playwrights
Amazon: B01GU9OAQE
Publisher: Outpost19
Published: 2016-06-07T23:00:00+00:00

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To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.

(Wilde, Gray)

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Borges, writing of Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan,” a poem written in a dream, notes that the original, historical Kubla Khan conceived of his palace in a dream. Centuries later, an English poet who didn’t know the palace he was writing about came out of a dream, dreamt a poem in which a palace is built. Borges writes, “Perhaps an archetype not yet revealed to mankind, an eternal object, is gradually entering the world; its first manifestation, the palace; its second, the poem.” The character of Madeleine, an invention of Gavin Elster—a daydream, at least, if not a dream proper—is the second manifestation of an archetype not yet revealed to mankind. Its first manifestation, Carlotta’s child, was conceived as though in a dream, with a man not Carlotta’s husband, a nightmare in which the child is taken away and raised as if Carlotta does not exist. Borges says that a dream leading first to a palace, and then, centuries later and continents distant, to a poem, is more incredible than all of the levitations, resurrections, and apparitions of the Scripture. But the passage of time and the great distance covered aren’t really important, are they? Isn’t it incredible enough that a dream can be shared by two men? A dream, which we still believe, because of Freud, to be a reflection of the individual, an expression of one particular brain? How can more than one person have the same dream? First Elster, then Scottie, then Judy. Now you and I.

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