$ 287. He had spent so much the new movie starring Kevin Spacey, the actor who, for "less than a year," has become the monster of "award-winning talent." But this is the case today – the path from "Hosanna" to "Crucified" has almost never been so short.
Personal beliefs and the (potentially) sinful past of different artists become a means to destroy their career and their creative achievements – rejected and forgotten. But the next time I release Seven, I will not think about how big a garbage (presumably) the actor is in the role of killer. In the meantime, I will be disgusted by the character, i. impressed by how well Spacey is in the role.
In the same way, I will not think "Wow, what a Lewkraft racist was" when he contacted one of the horrible horror stories of the writer.
If you do not know who Howard Phillips Lewkraft is: it's about the stranger, unfortunately, king of horror. Even the person who officially carries this title, Stephen "even films me the school notation block", admits that without the influence of Lewkraft the horror would not be what it was today.
The writer born in the 1890s is a compilation of awkward childhood, strangeness and talent, allowing him to make works that will shiver on your back, and the silence and darkness will suddenly make you more uncomfortable. And at sea you will not be able to look with confidence because of the fears of Lvivkraft that can be hidden in his intestines …
Lewkraft is generally good. So good that there are hundreds of writers who try to imitate his style – that horror-based suggestion of the primary fears of man. An abomination that has nothing to do with screaming teenagers and masked serial killers that you can see with that name in every Hollywood representative of the genre.
It is different in the literature – it is not the visual impact, there is not the cheap screaming of the audience with a popping darkness. There talent and fantasy are needed, and Lewkraft has the buckets.
But what is the total of Lewkraft's decades ago and the dramas with the forbidden faces in modern Hollywood?
That the author falls in the group of those whose creativity casts the shadow of their personal life. Yet today we live in the age of scandals about & # 39; representativeness & # 39 ;, & # 39; race & # 39 ;, & # 39; sexuality & # 39 ;, and so on. But apart from Hollywood, these scandals also have a place in literature, at least outside the ocean.
Already in 2014, long before we came to the argument that someone was not transgender enough for a film role, there has been a wave of disapproval against the World Fantasy Award in literary circles, which has been awarded for years to Lewkraft's award-winning lightweight caricature bust. According to some, however, Lewkraft was a racist.
A huge "surprise" for an author who lived in the US at the beginning of the 20th century – far away from any struggle for racial equality. And probably something that can be said about many other writers from this period, before and even after.
In Lewkraft's personal correspondence there is indeed "racism", although some seem to be cultural rather than a biological basis. It is a negative attitude towards all non-Anglo-Saxon origins and cultures – including not just African Americans but even Irish Catholics and German Protestants. In the course of time his views have softened, as is the case with many older people (Lewkraft died at the age of 46).
But at the beginning of this decade the dissatisfaction with the presence of the Lewkraft Award has gradually increased. It is enough for writer Daniel Jose Alder to submit a World Fantasy Award application to change Lewkraft's face to that of Octavia Butler, the black eye woman.
Here, the price organizers are focusing on this pressure. So they quietly mix the work of Lewkraft and his achievements in the horror genre with his personal views.
In 2015 it was announced that the bust of Lukvraft from next year would no longer be used as a reward. He has a bad but impersonal sculpture of moon and wood. From her there are so far no serious complaints, no petitions for her removal.
Again, we are talking about "sending a message" for future generations. It is likely that if you look at the world after a century does not match this, your face will not be rewarded or rewarded. Once again, the question arises – can we distinguish the meaning of someone's creativity from his personality? Are they the same as they were from the beginning?
The change in the type of price gets various reactions. Some admit that the lyricist of "racist Lewkraft" will no longer produce writers who do not belong to the European race to sweat and worry when they receive the World Fantasy Award. Others, however, are not satisfied with this denial of the artist's personality.
His biographer CT Joshi defines this decision as "political correctness in the worst form". According to him, the author's image on the award is merely a confirmation of Luvcraft's influence on the genre rather than a reflection of his personal views.
This is how these processes of creating a new "accepted" and "unacceptable" environment a few years before the Hollywood flooding occurred in literary circles in the United States – before the screening makes an effort for questions about sexuality and race before the full mixing social and artistic.
Literature about the ocean continues to drown in this political wave until today. To the extent that the profession of editor seems to ensure that representatives of certain races or sexes do not feel offended by a sentence in a newly written book.
In Bulgaria we seem far from all of this. Our literary scandals are usually related to who likes / dislikes the artist, how bad the translation is, how much he sells and why someone else does not sell such prints. We still do not seem to be ready for the topics "inclusion" and "representativeness".
That might be good.
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