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词条 Books of the Art
释义

  1. Synopsis

     The Great and Secret Show  Everville  Untitled third novel 

  2. Reception

  3. Comic book series

  4. References

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}}Books of the Art or The Art Trilogy is an incomplete trilogy of novels by Clive Barker, of which only the first two have been published.[1] The first book, The Great and Secret Show, was first published in 1989 and was followed by the second book, Everville, in 1994. The third book has yet to be written and there is currently no schedule for its release.[2][3] Of plans for the third book, Barker has stated that the book will be "a big book when it comes" and that he wants to write it with "as much feeling as possible."[4]

The trilogy has been cited as an example of Barker's use of magic as a motif to "comment upon the work of the creator of art" and Barker himself has used the term to describe transformative magic that is used as "windows through which to glimpse the miraculous".[3][5] The series thus far has been compared to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.[6]

Synopsis

The Great and Secret Show

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The Great and Secret Show follows Fletcher and Jaffe, two humans that have transcended reality and to become super-human. The two initially worked together but became adversaries when it became clear that Jaffe was intent on gaining control of Quiddity, a dream sea that humans can access only three times in their lives. The two men end up siring children by raping four teenage girls with the intention that they will continue their battles, only for two of their children to fall in love.

Everville

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Everville delves deeper into the mythology of the cosm (essentially, Earth) and the metacosm (another plane of existence containing the dream sea Quiddity). The character Harry D'Amour appears in the novel as a main character and some of the characters from the previous novel also make appearances.

Untitled third novel

As Barker has yet to write the third book he has yet to confirm any concrete plot but has stated some of its basic themes.

{{quote|I think what the third book will concern itself with is what the very origins of Quiddity, what the connection between humanity's origin and the origin of the conscience—the dream consciousness—that is there in the Sea of Quiddity, what that connection is. I've always believed in the idea of a collective unconscious, and Quiddity is really that. It's the sea we enter, as the mythology goes, where we enter once on the night when we are born, once on the night when we first kiss, and fall in love with the world, and once at the time we die. At the most serious and profound moments in our lives, we are given a moment to enter this place of pure dreaming, and that's fascinating, my fascination with dreaming. My dreams are mirrors of my soul. I'm hoping that will all be reflected in the third and final book.|Clive Barker|The Internet Review of Science Fiction[4]}}

Barker has also stated that he will not write the third book until he has finished the last book in The Books of Abarat series, which he stated could take years and would also be dependent on whether or not he wrote the sequel to Galilee first.[7] In 2014 he confirmed via Facebook that the book would be written and that he has "figured out" how he would write the ending.[8]

Reception

Critical reception for the trilogy to date has been mixed.[9][10] Common elements of criticism tend to center around the number of characters and subplots, which caused an Everville reviewer to write that "when you weed out the subplots, you find there is no main plot."[11][12] Author David Foster Wallace was critical of The Great and Secret Show and wrote that while the book was "not without some cool sections" it was also overly pretentious.[13] Publishers Weekly panned the first novel but praised the second,[14] which they felt "confirms the author's position not only as one of horror's most potent and fertile minds but also as one of modern fiction's premier metaphysicians."[15]

Comic book series

Between March 2006 and May 2007 IDW Publishing released a 12-part comic book adaptation of The Great and Secret Show.[16] A complete collection of the comics was released in 2007.[17][18]

References

1. ^{{cite book|last1=Joshi|first1=S.T.|title=The Modern Weird Tale|date=2001|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786409860|page=128|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7bUnAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA127&dq=%22Art%22+%22Great+and+Secret+Show%22+Barker&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TdRNVZaKFoaoogSM64CgCg&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22Art%22%20%22Great%20and%20Secret%20Show%22%20Barker&f=false|accessdate=9 May 2015}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Current Book Projects|url=http://www.clivebarker.info/bookswip.html|publisher=Clive Barker|accessdate=9 May 2015}}
3. ^{{cite book|last1=Joshi|first1=S. T.|title=Icons of Horror and the Supernatural, V2|date=2006|publisher=Greenwood|isbn=9780313337826|page=587|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QrT1SlwhfsIC&pg=PA587&dq=%22Books+of+the+Art%22+Barker&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mdJNVeqBM4ytogSKj4GICA&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=%22Books%20of%20the%20Art%22%20Barker&f=false|accessdate=9 May 2015}}
4. ^{{cite web|last1=Savory|first1=Brett|title=The Clive Barker Interview|url=http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10072|publisher=The Internet Review of Science Fiction|accessdate=9 May 2015}}
5. ^{{cite book|last1=Hamilton|first1=Geoff|last2=Jones|first2=Brian|title=Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction|date=2009|publisher=Facts on File|isbn=9781438116945|page=21|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JEvyadBdwYQC&pg=PT27&dq="Art"+"Great+and+Secret+Show"+Barker&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TdRNVZaKFoaoogSM64CgCg&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22Art%22%20%22Great%20and%20Secret%20Show%22%20Barker&f=false|accessdate=9 May 2015}}
6. ^{{cite book|last1=Winter|first1=Douglas E.|title=Clive Barker: the dark fantastic|date=2002|publisher=Harper Collins|isbn=000715092X|pages=316, 383|url=https://books.google.com/books?ei=mdJNVeqBM4ytogSKj4GICA&id=E4qddWwHFUgC&dq=%22Books+of+the+Art%22+Barker&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Books+of+the+Art%22|accessdate=9 May 2015}}
7. ^{{cite web|title=FAQ|url=http://www.clivebarker.com/html/visions/faq.htm|publisher=Clive Barker|accessdate=14 May 2015}}
8. ^{{cite web|title=BREAKING: Clive "figured it out" regarding ending of Art Trilogy|url=http://www.clivebarkercast.com/2014/08/28/breaking-clive-figured-it-out-regarding-end-of-art-trilogy/|publisher=Clive Barker Podcast|accessdate=14 May 2015}}
9. ^{{cite web|title=Everville (review)|url=http://www.booklistonline.com/Everville-Clive-Barker/pid=401970|publisher=Booklist|accessdate=9 May 2015}}
10. ^{{cite news|last1=Budrys|first1=Algis|title=In summary, this wasn't a bad idea|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3982927.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924193651/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3982927.html|dead-url=yes|archive-date=24 September 2015|accessdate=9 May 2015|publisher=Chicago Sun-Times (subscription required)|date=4 February 1990}}
11. ^{{cite web|last1=Mabe|first1=Chauncey|title=Barker's `Everville' Is Nowhereville|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1994-11-13/entertainment/9411080434_1_secret-show-barker-s-everville-novel|publisher=Sun-Sentinel|accessdate=9 May 2015}}
12. ^{{cite web|last1=Tucker|first1=Ken|title=ONE UNIVERSE AT A TIME PLEASE|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/11/books/one-universe-at-a-time-please.html|publisher=New York Times|accessdate=9 May 2015}}
13. ^{{cite news|last1=Foster Wallace|first1=David|title=The Horror of Pretentiousness|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1111484.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307210540/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1111484.html|dead-url=yes|archive-date=7 March 2016|accessdate=9 May 2015|publisher=Washington Post (subscription required)|date=19 February 1990}}
14. ^{{cite web|title=The Great and Secret Show: The First Book of the Art (review)|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-016276-4|publisher=Publishers Weekly|accessdate=9 May 2015}}
15. ^{{cite web|title=Everville: The Second Book of the Art (review)|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-017716-4|publisher=Publishers Weekly|accessdate=9 May 2015}}
16. ^{{cite web|title=AICN COMICS REVIEWS BATMAN! ULTIMATES! CLIVE BARKER'S THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW! AND MUCH MORE!!!|url=http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30301#10|publisher=AICN|accessdate=12 May 2015}}
17. ^{{cite web|title=IDW RELEASES CLIVE BARKER'S "THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW" IN DECEMBER|url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=11925|publisher=IDW/CBR|accessdate=12 May 2015}}
18. ^{{cite web|last1=Royer|first1=Dan|title=Comic Review: The Complete Clive Barker’s Great And Secret Show|url=http://horrornews.net/56651/comic-review-the-complete-clive-barker%E2%80%99s-great-and-secret-show/|publisher=HorrorNews.net|accessdate=12 May 2015}}
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