Lestat

Lestat is a character of fiction creates by the American novelist Anne Rice, he is also the main character of the Chroniques vampires which report the adventures of the drinkers of blood of the Orleans News and it is a vampire which moves away much from the original approach of the Mythe.

Genesis of Lestat

Famous the Vampire appears for the first time in Entretien with a vampire and one discovers it from the point of view of his child melancholic person, Louis de Pointe of the Lake. This last depicts it like a vulgar, destroying, egoistic vampire but nevertheless equipped with a certain seduction. It would thus seem that Lestat is the prototype, even the emanation of the vampires of the time victorienne like Lord Ruthven or Carmilla. Nevertheless the turbid character, lets foresee a human facet which was missing with its predecessors and especially fascine by his power and its predatory sensuality.

Thus the readers of Entretien with a vampire send a cloud of letters to the Anne Rice novelist and claim with heat the history of Lestat the vampire. It then decides to write the novel, which is not the beginning of the saga but one of the pillars founders constitutes some. Thus one discovers the Lestat truth, which is far from resembling the monster described by Louis, and appears with the reader like human alternate and not like a creature in the démoniaques beginnings. An amusing anecdote of the creation of the character is the error that Rice made while taking as a starting point a name of former French, Lestan, who gave rise to the first name of Lestat, with the hard sonority but impressed of a certain softness.

Physique of Lestat

In the majority of the accounts treating of vampires, the drinker of blood, even if it does not have an advantageous physique, has some Séduction conferred either by his capacities or his refinement. However, the majority of the stories concerning the lords of the night being written by men, we deal with the one of the rare representations feminized of the vampire.

The first descriptions that one gives us of Lestat evoke an incredibly beautiful being, of big size, the finely engraved face, almost female. Besides one begins the novel Lestat the vampire with a physical portrait of the vampire “I measure one meter four twenties. My thick blond hair and buckled almost descends me to the shoulders and appears white with the artificial light. My nose is rather short and fine; my well drawn, but a little large mouth for my face. My vampiric nature shows through in my excessively white and reflecting skin, that it is necessary to powder for its exposure to all the objectives, whatever they are”.

The beauty of Lestat is that of pale the Gentilhomme 18th century, where one snuffed much the dye of mother-of-pearl and the Blondeur, supposed to reveal the purity and the innocence of a being. One can thus see appearing a paradox between the face angelica of Lestat and his true nature, this contradiction reflecting rather well his major character. In our century, the aspect of this drinker of blood is thus incontestably Romantique, because resulting from another time.

Personality of Lestat and its symbolism

One of the essential characteristics of the character, that which causes the veneration of the fans, is without question this attitude of challenge of the hero, whom one could compare with that Dom Juan. Lestat is indeed entire in the revolt, that it is against its situation without hope in Auvergne, “For me, these years were filled of bitterness. However, I had been born agitated, I were the visionary, the coléreux one, the protester” or against the sclerosed company of the vampires, which causes in him only the contempt Thus here “thus all your philosophy, cleaned me I, and you tremble like churls, you endure your own liking the torments of the hell, more subjected than cheappest of the mortals and you would like to punish us because we refuse! ”. Lestat thus seems a disturbing element, which does not cease fighting against the positions established, because he dreams to find a creed of life ideal which he qualifies with arrogance and irony of “Way of the Devil”. One can also note the side Parricide of the character, who are not subjected to any old, whatever his age or his power. He enters even in conflict with Marius, which he however respected enormously.

The other paramount attribute of Lestat is its romantic attitude. This impassioned fire which lives it expresses several manners. Even in the Love, the vampire defies conventions while maintaining the almost incestueuses relations with his/her mother and by venerating soft and cruel the Claudia, hardly a child. The Homosexualité is also very present, as one can see it in the relations maintained with Louis, David Talbot and Tarquin Blackwood. But the vampiric love, even if it is not deprived of a certain sensuality, consists more of one long communion of the spirits, which can sometimes lead to conflicts as one can see it in Entretien with a vampire or bloody Cantique .

The romanticism of the character is thus expressed in this desire to exist in passion, with the contempt of the rules and the protocol. One can thus see with the wire of the novel that Lestat burns to shout in the world its condition of vampire, in spite of the risks incurred by the vampiric race as a whole. It thus reveals its nature with the spectators of the future Théâtres of the Vampires, with faithful of a church where it took refuge to escape vindication from Armand and especially when it improvises Chanteur of rock'n'roll and composes of the songs considered to be subversive by the community of the Death-alive . The scene in the concert is one of the moments worships of the book, where Lestat seems a divinity of Crowned Wood, venerated by a public is delirious about it. It tests at this time there feelings close to the extase “I shivered of pure exaltation and reddish sweat dégoulinait me along the face”.

Nevertheless, of the simple fact of its superhuman condition, Lestat is condemned to loneliness, like the soft dreamer imagined by Villiers of Isle-Adam and Baudelaire. Besides a literary critic compares the vampires of Anne Rice with the poem of Baudelaire, the Albatross, in the sense that they are awkward in the company of the mortals, incompetent to be expressed fully because limited by a possibility of rejection on behalf of the human ones. This exclusion thus creates a feeling of melancholy at the character even if it starts to love even more the mortals, incarnating in that perfectly the union of Eros and Thanatos, the love and death. Sometimes even if he manages to transcend the borders between the world of the men and the vampires, such as for example in the robber of body, where he exchanges his supernatural envelope with that of a démoniaque wizard, he nevertheless is put at the variation of humanity which he can only foresee the one night space.

Moreover, Lestat has one very me exalté, with the image of the romantic ones. It raises many questions Métaphysiques about its relationship with God, about its vampiric condition and especially about its origins. Thus it puts in search mysterious origins of its similar and tries to find the former agents of the secrecy. The latter hold only tracks, but with each meeting, it becomes stronger than it is mentally, following its confrontation with Armand or physically thanks to Marius and Akasha, which lets it drink their quasi omnipotent blood. Lestat is thus a reflection deformed of the human one, as one can see it through his interrogations and his insatiable thirst for knowing.

However, Lestat is far from being deprived of defects, the first which one can quote is his foolish arrogance, which is a weapon with double edge, because if it can lead it to advance in its not-life, it can plunge it very well in dark troubles. One can quote the passage where it is made take at the trap by Claudia or the time when it goes back to Paris to seek the saving blood of Armand. This last makes use then of him to destroy Claudia. In spite of its humanity with flower of skin, Lestat is able of worst. One can quote several moments when its monstrosity takes again the top, as for example at the time of its rupture with Gabrielle where he massacres a mortal who worried about his state. When it undergoes the yoke of Akasha, it behaves in a way cruel to faithful temple of Azim, the bloodthirsty man disciple of Pandora, that it eliminates until the last using his new capacities.

A last point to be specified on Lestat would be the constant report/ratio that the character maintains with Article At the beginning the novel éponyme, the young man flees his dull region to become actor of the Commedia dell' arte , then after its transformation into a drinker of blood, it is him which creates the famous theater of the vampires where the immortal ones, incarnating their own role, can be shown without danger with the mortals. It will take again this concept later on when it becomes transitory a Star of the rock'n'roll. One can wonder whether Anne Rice did not apply to “vampiric art”, celebrates it precept which wants that the works of art are lies which reveal truths. Moreover, it is also a violonist experienced who plays with a diabolic dexterity of this instrument “to awake deaths”, that he uses besides to draw Akasha from its torpor.

Lestat the vampire is thus a character whom one could describe as baudelairien, in the sense that there exists a tension between his various characteristics physical or mental but always it is that the primary education Manicheism of which was affublé the vampires of the olden days is now flown away to leave a creature which oscillate between humanity and the monstrosity, tending towards one or the other of these extremes but never reaching them.

History of Lestat

Lestat was born in a noble but poor family from the French Noblesse, and comes from the castle of Lioncourt, located in a lost region of the France, the Auvergne. Misunderstood and rejected by its family, it gains Paris with the support of his mother Gabrielle and accompanied by his friend Nicolas de Lenfent. It is in the city of the lights that Magnus transmits the dark gift to him and that it begins its initiation. Intrigued by the origins of its similar, it leaves to research old and via Armand, ends up finding Marius which the secrecy of Those to him that entrusts should be kept. After having briefly awaked, Akasha, the queen of damnés the, it leaves for the Orleans News and creates two children vampires, cruel the Claudia and silent the Louis. After having escaped accuracy with a revolt of its two beginners, it ends up being put out of ground and emerges from its sleep in the years 1980 when he becomes the leader of an rock group, Satan leaves downtown. Its music to awake deaths decides Akasha to return among his where it launches a vast project of extermination. It first of all destroys the vampires which are not meadows or by far, related to Lestat then it decides to massacre the near total of the male population of planet, to cause the advent of a company righter. A time subjected to the intentions of that which is made call “the queen of the skies”, Lestat adopts the surviving vampires for finally demolishing Akasha. He saw then other adventures in the novel the robber of body, where he exchanges his body with that of human, then in Memnoch the demon, the most discussed work of Anne Rice, he dialogs with God and Satan themselves. One finally finds it in the final volume of the saga, where it falls in love with the Sorcière Rowan Mayfair and draws with light the mystery wrapping the race from the Taltos.

Lestat with the cinema

This being Androgyne, large, fair with the blue eyes, was interpreted with the cinema by:

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