(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 98, Issue 9

[Eric Bourland]

John -- sounds like a good book. I'll find it and come back here with
thoughts. I've been lurking in this group for some months, but paying
attention to the intriguing discussions.

Eric

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Today's Topics:

   1.  Robert Aickman, The Model (jbarach at aol.com)
   2. Re:  Robert Aickman, The Model (Ant?nio Pedro Marques)
   3. Re:  Robert Aickman, The Model (jbarach at aol.com)


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URTHlings --

Recently I read Robert Aickman's The Model, a book which is blurbed by
(among others) Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, and Gene Wolfe.  Wolfe says about
it:


"The late Robert Aickman was up to something, and quite consciously.  He did
not title his little book The Model for nothing.  What he has done (and knew
he had done) is discover a new wonderland.  I would bet that the number of
peple who have done that is less than one tenth the number who have
discovered actual islands, inhabited or treasure; we must now add Aickman to
that short list.  He has told us what I think none of us had realized before
-- that czarist Russia can be just as viable a wonderland as, say, Baghdad
under the Caliph.  And he has not merely told us; he has proved it by
leaving us a model."


Some aspects of the book reminded me strongly of Wolfe (e.g., Aickman often
implies things, rather than saying them outright, and you have to be paying
attention as you read to catch what's really going on or being said), and I
wondered about the possible influence of Aickman on Wolfe.  Certainly Wolfe
himself has written at least one story set in something like the wonderland
he says Aickman discovered ("The Death of Koschei the Deathless: A Story of
Old Russia"), and certain elements in "Queen of the Night" (the carriage
journey, for instance) remind me a bit of what happens in The Model (though
The Model is much less creepy and graphic).

Has anyone else read The Model?  Thoughts?

John
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Interesting, thank you for sharing. 
Aickman has been on my list of authors to explore, but I haven't yet found
anything by him that is in convenient form for me (no collected works, no
series, no omnibuses...).



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There is a two volume collection of his "strange stories," but it is rare
and expensive. Nor does it include The Model, which seems like a good
starting place.

John



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Interesting, thank you for sharing. 
Aickman has been on my list of authors to explore, but I haven't yet found
anything by him that is in convenient form for me (no collected works, no
series, no omnibuses...).

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