sovay: (I Claudius)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2010-07-20 11:37 pm (UTC)

But Pompeiian ghosts?! Excellent!

"Arria Marcella: Souvenir de Pompéi" (1852), here translated as "The Tourist." I would have bought the collection for the story; it was just my luck that the rest turned out to be equally awesome, including the one in which archly and colorfully awful things happen to the painter-poet/authorial stand-in who reads too much E.T.A. Hoffmann. I think you'd like them all.

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