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A canonical gem of the nocturnal fantastic, in the tradition of German Romantics such as E.T.A. Hoffmann and Novalis First published in France in the dark year of 1942, the story collection Waystations of the Deep Night remains the best-known of Marcel Brion’s numerous novels and stories in the vein of the strange and the fantastic. The journeys in this volume carry the reader through the surreal vistas of an underground city that appears aboveground as a bizarre theater of facades and a fire-ravaged landscape where souls turn to ash. A young castrato sings his heart out in a lost baroque garden; a child falls under the fateful spell of an enchanted painting; a traveler in a burned-out landscape encounters the Prince of Death; and dancing cats engage in mortal combat in the cellars of an abandoned port city. A self-declared heir of Achim von Arnim and E.T.A. Hoffmann, Brion was also an admirer of the German Romantic writer Novalis and his sequence of Hymns to the Night, but his own imaginative homages to the night are more troublingly ambiguous, possibly an indirect reflection of the dark times in which they were written. Born in Marseille in 1895, Marcel Brion was a freelance writer and critic. In 1964 he was elected to the Académie française in recognition of both his critical and creative writing, Over the course of a long and productive career he published 20 novels, four volumes of short stories and some 68 nonfiction books covering music, art, literature, history and travel. He died in Paris in 1984.

Where Darkness Bends"We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves."- Leonora Carrington Welcome to The Silent Garden.The Silent Garden is a peer-reviewed journal of esoteric fabulism, edited and curated by the Silent Garden Collective, a professional group of editors, writers, and scholars interested in exploring those liminal borderlands where darkness bends.The Collective's aim is to provide an annual journal of exceptional writing and art focussed on horror and the numinous, the fabulist, the uncanny, the weird, the gnostic, the avant-garde, the esoteric, and the dark interstices of the known and unknown world.Each volume of The Silent Garden will feature original, translated, and reprint fiction and non-fiction, including; film and book reviews; essays; opinion and commentary; as well as poetry and art.THE SILENT GARDEN: A JOURNAL OF ESOTERIC FABULISMDELUXE SQUARE (8.5" X 8.5") HARDBACK, WITH INTERIOR COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS, PRINTED ON 70LB. PAPER.The inaugural volume features the following: ARTTranscending the Grotesquerie: The Surreal Landscapes of David WhitlamNON-FICTION"Translating The Ritual," by J.T. Glover"The Raw Food Movement: Comparing Transformative Diets in Han Kang's The Vegetarian (2015) and Julia Ducournau's Raw (2016)," by V.H. Leslie"Unstitching the Patriarchy: A review of Camilla Grudova's The Doll's Alphabet," by Rudrapriya Rathore"Cinema of the Body: The Politics of Performativity in Lars Von Trier's Dogville and Yorgos Lanthimo's Dogtooth," by Angelos KoutsourakisPOETRY"Lincoln Hill," by Daniel Mills"Deposition of Darkness," by Mes ndel Virtusio Arguelles (Translated by Kristine Ong Muslim)"Contortionist," by Mes ndel Virtusio Arguelles (Translated by Kristine Ong Muslim)FICTION"Waystations of the High Night," by Marcel Brion (Translated by Edward Gauvin)"Her Blood the Apples, Her Bones the Trees," by Georgina Bruce"La Tierra Blanca," by Maurizio Cometto (Translated by Rachel S. Cordasco)"Embolus of Cinnabar," by Patricia Cram"Palisade," by Brian Evenson"Under the Casket, A Beach " by Nick Mamatas"The Other Tiger," by Helen Marshall"Coruvorn" by Reggie Oliver"Blood and Smoke, Vinegar and Ashes" by D.P. Watt"The Palace of Force and Fire," by Ron Weighell"Nox Una," by Marian Womack

Marsel Brion, chlen Frantsuzskoj akademii, napisal svoju knigu o ljubvi, otkryv pered chitatelem tseluju vselennuju muzyki Motsarta, ego zhizni i tvorchestva. Genialnyj avstrijskij kompozitor XVIII veka, ushedshij v bessmertie, ne dozhiv do 36 let, ostavil posle sebja ogromnoe muzykalnoe nasledie - bolee 620 zakonchennykh proizvedenij i nemaloe chislo fragmentov, eskizov, otdelnykh chastej. Kazhdaja novaja epokha otkryvaet svoego Motsarta i nakhodit v nem sozvuchie svoim mysljam i chuvstvam. Pod glubokim vozdejstviem motsartovskogo genija nakhodjatsja vse posledujuschie pokolenija muzykantov i ljubitelej muzyki, uznavaja v nem samo sovershenstvo.Kak i pochti vse genii, Motsart ne byl ponjat i otsenen svoim vremenem, zhil v stesnennykh materialnykh uslovijakh, nakhodilsja v unizitelnoj zavisimosti ot vlast imuschikh. No ego muzyka, napoennaja svetom, solntsem i zhiznju, vsegda budet voskhischat i radovat ljudej, vdokhnovljat ikh na samye svetlye i dobrye dela.