#Play Lynn Nottage

OCTOBER

by Lynn Nottage

Finished: 18.10.2022
Genre: play
Rating: C-
Title: Ruined (9781559366298)

Bad news: 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama…unfortunately I found this just an average play.
It did not feel like a prize winner!

Personal: Lynn Nottage remains a formidable playwright but she really disappointed met with Ruined.  I KNOW she can do better so

…I recommend reading her play  SWEAT a much better play!

by Lynn Nottage

Finish date: 21 February 2022
Genre: Play
Rating: A++++++++

Good news: Structure: Now this was a real puzzle! Act 1 and Act 2 start the first scene in 2008…then the rest of the act is a flashback to 2000. Act 2 does end with 2 scenes in 2008 to give the play a feeling of closure, bookends the last scenes with the same characters that started the play: Chris, Jason and their parole officer, Evan. You get the feeling that these 2 young men are just out of prison for ….what? Read the play! Every time I read a play I learn more information that helps me read novels. Study one genre….and learn more about another!

Good news: Dialogue: We get a realist picture of life in a factory town…this is a “slice of life” play. The location reminded me of the Pennsylvania town depicted in the movie Deer Hunter . I always like to put faces on names….and in the play Sweat I could use some of the characters from that movie to breath life into the characters! Oh, I must watch that movie again!

Good news Location: Ms Nottage selected one of the poorest towns in USA in 2017 as the backdrop of the play: Reading, Pennsylvania. We walk into a blue-collar industrial town bar…a place where the factory workers would congregate.

Good News: Writing style: Ingenious how Ms Nottage creates two worlds: inside the bar, the lives of the characters and outside the bar by introducing the “radio news” before each scene. You can just picture barflies hanging over their beer listening to things that are beyond their home grown troubles (Wall Street Bailout, Bush administration, Obama-McCain debate).

Good news: Social commentary:  this play had everything that would push the buttons of working class folks: black promoted to management, factory moves jobs to Mexico, union puts a headlock on the workers and wages are going to be slashed.

Good news: Characters: are from ethnic backgrounds including 6 men and 3 women. There is a deep feeling of racially-related disagreements that destroy friendships and turn into violent conflicts.

Personal After reading this play I was so impressed by Ms Nottage. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice in 2009 for Ruined and in 2017 for Sweat and she thoroughly deserved these accolades! While reading Sweat I had to remember a poem by Y. Komunyakaa Fog Galleon The poet describes the return to a industrial hometown USA. in just a few words he summed up what I felt after reading this play:
The whole town smells like the world’s oldest anger…..that turns workers into pulp.

 

#French Literary Prizes Nominated Books 2022

 

Grand prix du roman de l’Académie française: (27 October) 2e sélection 

• Le Mage du Kremlin, de Giuliano Da Empoli (Gallimard) – READ – WINNER
• Ceux qui restent, de Jean Michelin (Héloïse d’Ormesson)
• La Petite Menteuse, de Pascale Robert-Diard (L’Iconoclaste)

 

Prix de Flore: (10 November)

• L’Inconduite de Emma Becker (Albin Michel)
• Chienne et louve de Joffrine Donnadieu (Gallimard)
• Les poupées de Clovis Goux (Stock)
• Les enfants endormis d’Anthony Passeron (Globe)
• Le doute de Basile Panurgias (Robert Laffont)

 

Prix des 5 continents de la Francophonie: (?? January 2023)

• Noces de coton d’Edem AWUMEY (Togo-Canada-Québec), Ed. du Boréal (Canada-Québec)
• Le Silence des dieux de Yahia BELASKRI (Algérie-France), Ed. Zulma (France)
• L’agneau des neiges de Dimitri BORTNIKOV (France-Russie), Ed. Rivages (France)
• La voleuse de Daria COLONNA (Canada-Québec), Ed. Poètes de brousse (Canada-Québec)
• Les ombres filantes de Christian GUAY-POLIQUIN (Canada-Québec), Ed. La peuplade (Canada-Québec)
• Moïse de Casa de Driss JAYDANE (Maroc), Ed. Les Avrils (France)
• Gens du nord de Perrine LEBLANC (Canada-Québec), Ed. Gallimard (France)
• Les Aquatiques d’Osvalde LEWAT (France-Cameroun), Ed. Les Escales (France),
• Saharienne Indigo de Tierno MONENEMBO (Guinée Conakry), Ed. du Seuil (France)
• Enlève la nuit de Monique PROULX (Canada-Québec), Ed. du Boréal (Canada-Québec)

 

Prix Décembre: (26 October) 2e selection

• Brigitte Giraud Vivre vite (Flammarion)
• Catherine Millet Commencements (Flammarion)
• Lola Lafon Quand tu écouteras cette chanson (Stock) – WINNER
• Emma Becker l’Inconduite (Albin Michel)
• Corentin Durand l’Inclinaison (Gallimard)

Prix Femina: (07 November)

• Vivre vite de Brigitte Giraud (Flammarion)
• Le cœur ne cède pas de Grégoire Bouillier (Flammarion)
• Tenir sa langue de Polina Panassenko (L’Olivier)
• Taormine de Yves Ravey (Editions de Minuit)
• GPS de Lucie Rico (P.O.L)
• Le dernier des siens de Sibylle Grimbert (Anne Carrière)
• Un chien à ma table de Claudie Hunzinger (Grasset) –  READ
• L’inventeur de Miguel Bonnefoy (Rivages)
• Quand l’arbre tombe  de Oriane Jeancourt-Galignani(Grasset)
• Petite sœur de Marie Nimier (Gallimard)

 

Prix Femina 2022 du roman étranger : (07 November)

• Mes fantômes et moi de Gabriel Byrne, traduit par Diane Meur (Sabine Wespieser)
• La dépendance de Rachel Cusk, traduit par Blandine Longre(Gallimard)
• La douceur de l’eau de Nathan Harris, traduit par Isabelle Chapman (Philippe Rey)
• Les abeilles grises d’Andreï Kourkov traduit par Paul Lequesne (Liana Levi)
• Stern 111 de Lutz Seiler traduit par Philippe Giraudon (Verdier)
• Nous, les Allemands d’Alexander Starritt, traduit par Diane Meur (Belfond)
• En mémoire de la mémoire de Maria Stepanova traduit par Anne Coldefy-Faucard (Stock)
• Real life de Brandon Taylor, traduit par Héloïse Esquié (La Croisée)
• Le magicien de Colm Toibin, traduit par Anna Gibson(Grasset)
• Vers le paradis d’Hanya Yanagihara traduit par Marc Amfreville (Grasset)

 

Prix Femina de l’essai: (07 November)

• Troublante identité, Paul Audi (Stock)
• La religion woke, Jean-François Braunstein (Grasset)
• Homo numerus : la civilisation qui vient, Daniel Cohen(Albin Michel)
• Déjeunons sur l’herbe, Guillaume Durand (Bouquins)
• Z comme zombie, Iegor Gran (POL)
• Le procès de la chair, David Haziza (Grasset)
• Le Train de Proust, Bertrand Leclair (Pauvert)
• Le fétiche et la plume : la littérature, nouveau produit du capitalisme,  Hélène Ling et Inès Sol Salas (Rivages)
• Traduire Hitler, Olivier Mannoni (Héloïse d’Ormesson)
• Juliette Drouet : compagne du siècle, Florence Naugrette (Flammarion)
• Le musée, une histoire mondiale, Krzysztof Pomian(Gallimard)
• Tombeaux : autobiographie de ma famille, Annette Wieviorka (Seuil)

Prix Goncourt : (03 November)

• Grégoire BOUILLIER, Le cœur ne cède pas (Flammarion)
• Nathan DEVERS, Les liens artificiels (Albin Michel)
• Giuliano da EMPOLI, Le Mage du Kremlin (Gallimard) – READ

 

Brigitte GIRAUD, Vivre vite (Flammarion) – WINNER

1. The novelist returns to the death of her companion.
2. A magnificent story about the meaning of destiny.
3. Signing of the bill of sale. Accident. Moving. Funeral.
4. In four words, Brigitte Giraud presents the sequence of a life destroyed
5. …by the brutal death of Claude, her companion, on a motorcycle.
6. Before death, there was happiness.
7. Brigitte and Claude have a child, they have just passed to the notary
8. …to acquire the house of their dreams, in Lyon.
9. But Claude will never live there.
10. And to think they both joked about
11. …mortgage life insurance is essentially a life insurance cover that
12. helps to pay off your mortgage if you die before fully paying off your property.

 

La romancière revient sur la mort de son compagnon. Un récit magnifique sur le sens du destin.Signature de l’acte de vente. Accident. Déménagement. Obsèques. En quatre mots, Brigitte Giraud dresse l’enchaînement d’une vie saccagée par la mort brutale de Claude, son compagnon, survenue au guidon d’une moto. Avant la mort, il y avait le bonheur. Brigitte et Claude ont un enfant, ils viennent de passer chez le notaire pour acquérir la maison de leur rêve, à Lyon. Mais Claude n’y vivra jamais. Et dire qu’ils avaient tous deux plaisanté sur l’assurance décès liée à l’emprunt.

 

 

 

• Cloé KORMAN, Les Presque Sœurs (Seuil)
• Makenzy ORCEL, Une somme humaine (Rivages)
• Pascale ROBERT-DIARD, La petite menteuse (L’Iconoclaste)
• Monica SABOLO, La vie clandestine (Gallimard)

 

Prix Interallié:  (09 November)

• Emma BECKER – L’Inconduite (Albin Michel)
• Nathan DEVERS – Les Liens artificiels (Albin Michel)
• Giuliano da EMPOLI, Le Mage du Kremlin (Gallimard) – READ
• Fabrice GAIGNAULT – La vie plus douce (Grasset)
• Judith HOUSEZ – Chateaubriand à Saint-Tropez (Équateurs)
• Philibert HUMM – Roman fleuve (Équateurs)
• Tristan JORDIS – Le pays des ombres (Stock)
• Émilienne MALFATTO – Le colonel ne dort pas (Sous-sol)
• Pascale ROBERT-DIARD – La Petite menteuse (L’Iconoclaste)
• Pierre ADRIAN – Que reviennent ceux qui sont loin (Gallimard)

 

Prix Jean Giono: (08 November) 2e selection

–  Une heure de ferveur Muriel Barbery (Actes Sud)
–  Attaquer la terre et le soleil Mathieu Belezi (Le Tripode)
–  On était des loups Sandrine Collette (J-C Lattés )
–  Un homme sans titre Xavier Le Clerc (Gallimard )
– L’heure des oiseaux Maud Simonnot (l’Observatoire )

 

Prix Medicis 2022 des romans français (07 November) 2e selection

• Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam, La Treizième Heure (POL)
• Diaty Diallo, Deux secondes d’air qui brûle (Seuil)
• Virginie Despentes, Cher connard (Grasset)
• Claudie Hunzinger, Un chien à ma table de (Grasset) – READ
• Victor Jestin, L’Homme qui danse (Flammarion)
• Olivia Rosenthal, Un singe à ma fenêtre (Verticales)
• Monica Sabolo, La Vie clandestine (Gallimard)
• Anne Serre, Notre si chère vieille dame (Mercure de France)

 

Prix Medicis 2022 des romans étrangers (07 November) 2e sélection

• Maria Sonia Cristoff, Mal d’époque, traduit de l’espagnol (Argentine) par Anne Plantagenet (Le Sous-Sol)
• Gyrdir Eliasson, Requiem, traduit de l’islandais par Catherine Eyjolfsson (La Peuplade)
• Andreï Kourkov, Les abeilles grises, traduit du russe (Ukraine) par Paul Lequesne (Liana Levi)
• Nicola Lagioia, La Ville des vivants, traduit de l’italien par Laura Brignon (Flammarion)
• Leila Mottley, Arpenter la nuit, traduit de l’américain par Pauline Loquin (Albin Michel)
• Maria Stepanova, En mémoire de la mémoire, traduit du russe par Anne Coldefy-Faucard (Stock)
• Colm Toibin, Le Magicien, traduit de l’anglais (Irlande) par Anna Gibson (Grasset)
• Allen S.Weiss, L’Autobiographie de Teddy, traduit de l’américain par Jean-François Allain (Gallimard)

 

Prix Medicis 2022 des essais (07 November)

• Carole Allamand, Tout garder (Anne Carrière)
• Philippe Bordas, Le célibataire absolu (Gallimard)
• Clémence  Boulouque, Nos apocalypses (Stock)
• Iegor Gran, Z comme zombie (POL)
• Nastassjia Martin, A l’est des rêves, (La Découverte)
• Anthony Passeron, Les enfants endormis (Globe)
• Krzysztof Pomian, Le musée, une histoire mondiale, tome III (Gallimard)
• Anne Savelli , Musée Marilyn (Inculte)
• Georges Didi-Uberman, Le Témoin jusqu’au bout. (Minuit)
• Annette Wieviorka,  Tombeaux (Seuil)

 

Prix Renaudot: (3 November)

• Partie italienne de Antoine CHOPLIN – Buchet-Chastel
• On était des loups de Sandrine COLLETTE – J.-C. Lattès (finalist)
• Les Liens artificiels de Nathan DEVERS – Albin Michel (finalist)
• Le dernier des siens de Sybille GRIMBERT – Anne Carrière (finalist)
• Un chien à ma table de Claudie HUNZINGER – Grasset – READ (finalist)
• Performance de Simon LIBERATI – Grasset (finalist)  – WINNER
• Trouver refuge de Christophe ONO DIT BIOT – Gallimard (finalist)
• La Vie clandestine de Monica SABOLO – Gallimard (finalist)

 

Prix Renaudot essai: (3 November)

• Le Sexe des femmes d’Anne AKRICH – Gallimard  (finalist)
• Déjeunons sur l’herbe de Guillaume DURAND – Bouquins (finalist) –  – WINNER
• Quand tu écouteras cette chanson de Lola LAFON – Stock
• Oublier la nuit de Jean-Paul MARI – Buchet-Chastel (finalist)
• Le Photographe de Notre-Dame de Jean-Claude PERRIER – du Cerf
• Géographie des peuples fabuleux de Olivier PHILIPPONNAT – Buchet-Chastel (finalist)
• Anne-Laure Lacou

 

#Poetry Michael Farrell

OCTOBER

by Michael Farrell

 

Finished:  17.10.2022
Genre: poetry (42 free verse poems)
Rating: F –
Title: I Love Poetry (9781925336559)

 

Good news: All poems in this collection are short.

 

Bad news: I hated each and every poem! Really, is this what you consider poetry, Michael ?

 

Personal: I read every single poem…hoping, searching for one bright poetic moment. The best part of the book is the cover. Sorry, Michael Farrell…I really tried but could not make sense of your thought process. It’s not you…it must be me.

#Novel Akwaer Emezi

OCTOBER
by Akwaeke Emezi

Finished: 11.10.2022
Genre: novel
Rating: D-
Title: The Death of Vivek Oji (9780571351015)

 

Bad news: Stunning, heart wrenching …electrifying novel? Sorry, I just don’t see it.
Overhyped..I believed the reviews. Wasted precious reading time…it’s my own fault.

 

Good news: Now I have just one less book in my Kindle TBR.

 

Personal: Prime example of throwing some ideas towards a word processor…mix in some incest, shocked parents, friends who want to protect, predicable plot and some flat characters floundering around in their own distress…shake lightly… and then serve.
Why in heaven’s name did I buy this book?

#Novel Dymphna Cusack

The Blue Mountains, Australia

OCTOBER

by Dymphna Cusack

Finish date: 13 October 2022
Genre: novel (258 pg)
Rating: B
Review: Say No to Death (ISBN: 9781743315378)

 

Good news: This is NOT a book that I would select but it has been on my Kindle for three years!
I keep avoiding it because I know it will be…very sad, a tragic romance, a terminal illness…in short a tear-jerker. But compliments to Ms Cusack who keep the narrative readable without sinking into melodrama.

 

Good news: Dymphma Cusack has managed to create the right tone so I could at least finish the book. The author kept the book observational, removed, and calm. It was NOT emotionally exhausting but rather touching, heart wrenching.

 

Good news: Sad as the book was…it did show the reader what a person with tuberculosis goes through. …how quickly this disease can spread and what the treatment was like in 1950s Australia.

 

Personal: Glad I finished the book and kept my emotions intact. Would I read another Ms Cusack book? Probably yes…her descriptions of the Australian landscape, the Blue Mountains and Forty Baskets Beach near Sydney were beautiful.

 

Feedback: comment by Brona @bronasbooks:

Brona, I’m not drawn to romance in fiction very often….but Dymphna’s writing style was addictive. She kept the chapters short…let the main characters (Jan and Bart) evolve from starstruck lovers to people who have learned that very best thing in the world is loving someone so much that you would give your life for them. Someone whose happiness means more to you than your own happiness. Someone who depends on you… someone on whom you can depend. News flash…I like this book better than several Thea Astley’s book!!

#October Reading List 2022

October:

1. Ruined – Lynn Nottage  – 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama   – REVIEW:
2. The Death of Vivek Oji (248 pg) – Akwaeke Emezi 2020 (novel) – REVIEW
3. Friends and Rivals – Brenda Niall (pg 239) (NF) Australia  – REVIEW
4. Say No To Death (259 pg) – Dymphna Cusak (Australia) – READ…review soon
5. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac  – short stories -(289 pg) -L. Kennedy (Ireland) – READING
6. Magical Negro – Morgan Parker (poems)
7. Binti – N. Okorafor (SF)
8. Un chien à ma table – Claudie Hunzinger
9. Cathy Park Hong  – Minor Feelings (essays)
10. A Fool’s Errand (256 pg) – Lonnie G. Bunch III (memoir)

#Max Verstappen……World Champion 2022!

Max Verstappen…he’s done it again…World Champion Formule 1 Racing 2022!

1. Verstappen has become only the third driver to have secured the championship
2. with four or more races remaining:
3. Michael Schumacher took it in 2002 with six to go
4. Nigel Mansell in 1992 with five
5. Sebastian Vettel won with four remaining 

 

Quick Scan:

1. Max Verstappen wins Japanese GP and secures second world title
2. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc finishes P2 on road but hit with five-second penalty after running wide at final chicane and drops to P3
3. Race ended after 28 laps of the scheduled 53 because of two-hour limit following earlier red flag
4. But full points were awarded – contrary to the expectations of most the in the F1 paddock
5. Verstappen leads Perez by 113 points – with a maximum of 112 now available.
6. Anger among many drivers after a recovery vehicle was on track while Alpha Tauri’s Pierre Gasly was driving at speed
7. However, Gasly has been summoned to see stewards on suspicion of driving too fast under red flag
8. Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz aquaplanes off and is out of the race, Alex Albon also retires with mechanical problem in Williams

 

• There will be “trolls” on social media who will still complain about Max Verstappen’s win
• Do we care?
• Hell, no! “Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead”!
• We still have 4 more races….so see you in (time: Central European Time (CET)

 

Datum	Grand Prix	Tijd
Zondag 23 oktober	GP van Austin, de Verenigde Staten	21.00 uur
Zondag 30 oktober	GP van Mexico	21.00 uur
Zondag 13 november	GP van Brazilië	19.00 uur
Zondag 20 november	GP van Abu Dhabi	14.00 uur

 

 

 

 

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#PrixGoncourt shortlist Le mage de Kremlin

OKTOBER

by Giuliano da Empoli

 

Finish date: 29 September 2022
Genre: novel (288 pg)
Rating: D
Review: Le mage de Kremlin  (ISBN: 9782072958168)

 

UPDATE: 05 October 2022
Le mage de Kremlin” made it to the shortlist #PrixGoncourt 2022. Please
@AcadGoncourt
tell me why THIS book is better than Sarah Jollien-Fardel’s book
@wespieser
“Sa préférée” Read both books (reviews on blog). Le mage de Kremlin …read and weep.

 

Bad news: If chapter one is any indication what the rest of the book will be like….I hope I can at least read 50% before I decide to toss it! Reading this book is like pulling teeth!

 

Bad news: Writing is cluttered, overwritten…too many adjectives and not enough ideas.
Ch 3…bored to tears…but I keep reading. Give the author a chance to redeem himself.

 

Good news: After 28% of the book (ch 8) the author introduces me to Berezovsky. Well known personage in Russian politics…creating the political party that would bring Putin to power. Now I feel for the first time ‘the historical fiction’ the author intended.
Unobtrusive history…..depending on a believable and reasonably accurate setting; often includes. actual historical personages.

 

Personal: Despite a very slow start…I did manage to learn more about Russian politics (1998-2005). That is the beauty of historical fiction….it breathes life into some important personages (…in this case Berezovsky). My initial optimism for this book after 8 chapters… has been quashed. Interesting concept…a narrator is the  “fly-on-the-wall” aide to Putin…but all that happens have been in the news and written about in many books. So nothing new here….

Examples: explosion apt buildings to trigger invasion of Chechnya
Boris Berezovsky’s attempt to ruin Putin’s imago. (when officials misled and manipulated the public and news media about Kursk submarine disaster (Aug 2000) and refused help from other countries’ ships nearby. President Vladimir Putin initially continued his vacation at a seaside resort in Sochi “Why should I go there, they are all ready dead”)

• No, this is not a prize winning book (longlist Prix Goncourt 2022).
• #disappointed #deçu

 

#RIPXVII Mexican Gothic

 

OCTOBER

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Finish date: 01 October 2022
Genre: novel
Rating: A
Review: Mexican Gothic (ISBN: 978-1529402681)

 

1. It’s time once again for National Hispanic Heritage Month,
2. which runs annually from September 15 through October 15.
3. #HispanicHeritageMonth

 

Quick scan: Set in 1950-1952, Noemi lives in Mexico City, enjoying the parties, games and the flirting with handsome heirs to vast companies. When her cousin Catalina sends a telegram saying her new husband is trying to poison her, Noemi sets off to investigate her cousin’s strange claim

 

Good news: Mexican Gothic contains some excellent “gothic” characteristics: environment of fear, discovery of obscured family ties and nightmares, dreams or frightening visions.

 

Good news: I’m learning more about “spooky” books. Writers use the “dream scene” quite frequently to let the horror/supernatural explode in the narrative and scare the bejesus out of the reader!
1st dream – ch 5 wallpaper in bedroom
2nd dream- ch 8 intruder in the bedroom
3rd dream – ch 11 the house is really haunted!
4th dream – ch 14…very strange
5th dream – ch 18….sleepwalking

 

Good news: Excellent use of a cemetery to create a super suspenseful 9th chapter. Noemi is searching for something her cousin Catalina told her: “It lives in the cemetery.” Now, Ms Moreno-Garcia really has my attention.

 

Bad news: What is Ms Moreno-Garcoia’s biggest challenge? Try to keep supernatural (gothic) tales within the realm of the probable. Did Silvia do this?…does she let the book veer towards the absurd. Well, I must admit the book does go beyond reality…but in a good “scary” way! When you hear the expression. “the walls have ears”…well, believe it!

 

Good news: The house plays an important role as a setting, a symbol and a semi-character. This is one of the best part of the book…my imagination can run wild: house leaps out of the mist
…looms over them like a giant gargoyle
…the ebony porch groans and a
…silver knocker shaped like a fist dangling from a circle.
You can just see it!

 

Good news: Ch 6 -We learn the family at “High Place” (where Catalina is being held by her husband….) is cursed! The book just keeps getting better!

 

Good news: Buckle up…the last 5 chapters is a rollercoaster ride!!

 

Personal: This book is the epitome of the feeling and atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread. IMO this is the key to dark fiction…this is how you get under the reader’s skin!
“I’ve told you about the bloodline. We’re special.” ( pg 212)
If you like a good spine-chilling psychological thriller that will keep you turning the pages…this is THE book!
PS…I knew there was something spooky about those mushrooms!

#RIPXVII Romantisme Noir in Paris

The Nightmare

 

1. Discover  during RIPXVII  the work of the
2. …British painter of Swiss origin, Johann Heinrich Füssli (1741-1825).
3. Explore the most emblematic themes of the work of
4. …Füssli, artist of the imagination and the sublime.
5. From Shakespearean subjects to representations of
6. …dreams, nightmares and apparitions,
7. ….to mythological and biblical illustrations
8. …Füssli develops a new aesthetic that oscillates between dream and fantasy.
9. Exposition is now in Paris!
10. «Füssli, entre rêve et fantastique», au Musée Jacquemart-André
11. …jusqu’au 23 janvier 2023.
12. CLICK ON THIS LINK… and enjoy this animation of Füssli’s works
13. …created by the museum…beautiful and SPOOKY!
14. Also…browse through Füssli’s most icons paintings
15. PS: extra info via wikipedia about DARK  ROMANTICISM