The Reveries of Loömos 💀 scary.co

René de Saint-Denis has immersed himself in the literature, philosophy, and poetry of 19th century Europe, a body of work that Paul Claudel, in Positions et Propositions, called “...this moor full of ruins and excavations,...this graveyard dug by the spirits of the dead.” Not surprisingly, The Reveries of Loömos, with its themes of despair and incredulity, reflects the mal de siècle sensibilities characteristic of those times. That spiritual sickness produced disillusionment, melancholy, and a weariness with life, as well as feelings of violence and aggression. With illustrations reminiscent of Dante or Blake’s prophetic work, The Reveries of Loömos is, in part, a commentary on, and a description and narration of a moral and conceptual journey of a truth-seeker named Loömos who is living the darker and more painful aspects of the human experience. The author’s language is grave and august, and often resembles, in its high-flown tone, great myths or religious tracts. He seems preoccupied with epistemological and ontological issues concerning the nature of reality and one’s relation to it and the world, and appears to believe that he has understood the profoundest of concepts such as eternity and evil, death and god. To the reader not attuned to such concerns, the resulting thoughts are unlikely to have much meaning. Saint-Denis is a product of the late twentieth century, early twenty-first century, as well, which have produced their own fin de siècle sensibilities. As Louis Sass has said in Madness and Modernism, “There is a turning away from communal modes of expression and towards the concerns and processes of the inner life which have come to seem more authentic, more powerful, and more real.” Wallace Fowlie has written in Lautréamont, “Our so-called Age of Reason is the age when we learn that our real life cannot be lived in society, that precisely an art of camouflage has to be devised so that we may exist on two levels, one in the community of men, and one in the loneliness of the spirit which is also the freedom of the spirit.” Such seems to be the dilemma to which Saint-Denis speaks, in this as in his sequel, The Songs and Laments of Loömos.

Release Date 01/04/2021
Authors René de Saint Denis , R. G. Skinner
Language English
Companies CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format Kindle

Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction , Occult Fiction , occult

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