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Malpertuis is the first novel Fantastique of the Belgian writer Jean Ray, published in 1943. The tone is oneiric and suspense, worrying. The fantastic one rests on large the Greek myths and the abolition of space and time.
Summary
The old man Cassave, a man who can bequeath an immense heritage, feels near to death. He convenes the members of his family at his place, in the residence which he named Malpertuis. He announces that each person wanting to touch the heritage will have to live in Malpertuis. Its orders are that only the last there alive will be able to see fortune. If there remains a man and a woman, they will have to marry and will touch the heritage with deux.
There are Lampernisse, Charles Dideloo, aunt Sylvie, Euryale, Mathias Krook, Nancy and Jean-Jacques, the three Cormélon sisters, the Philarète cousin, Dr. Sambucque and the Griboin household, helped of Tchiek. Jean-Jacques Grandsire, the young “ingenuous” hero, lives among these strange beings and is, at the end of the first part, only vis-a-vis Euryale whose glance petrifies. In the continuation, Jean-Jacques tries to untie the enigma of Malpertuis but the terrible scenes to which it assists, the shade of the evil spells and the breath of crowned will disturb its health seriously. He will die, petrified, by looking at the sky, where Euryale fought with the Euménides (Erinyes).
Progressively of the various parts of the text, one includes/understands little by little that Cassave was not normal , just as his strange residence. Strange small beings live the attic, a malefic shade extinguished the lamps and the various people living the house since the death of the Cassave old man are in fact of the divinities déchues, captured by Cassave there is that many glosses. There is Zeus (Eisengott), Héra (the Groulle Mother), Aphrodite (the Griboin woman), Héphaïstos (Mr. Griboin), Apollon (Mathias Krook), the Titans (represented by only Tchiek), Prométhée (Lampernisse), Euryale of the three [[gorgones]] (Euryale), Erinyes (the Cormélon sisters).
Malpertuis, the house, is a cursed and appalling house. No door is closed, no door does not resist, but each step is surrounded by terrifying mysteries and malefic blackness.
Built on an enshrining of manuscripts, the novel multiplies the narrative voices.
Adaptation
This novel was adapted to the cinema by Harry Kümel, with in particular Orson Welles and Michel Bouquet, in the film Malpertuis .Jan Bucquoy refers to film in its album Jaunes - In extreme cases of reality .
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