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“Vampire lore is often traced to anxiety around death and disease.”
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“To read Anne Rice is to become both vampire and victim.”
“Maybe it’s her mastery of atmosphere or the way she wrestles with the moral questions posed by immortality in such deeply human ways.”
“Rice understood and communicated this response through Louis’s physical transformation and emotional journey.”
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“The process by which something passes from fiction into legend is mysterious, magical even.”
“It doesn’t matter how many books we sell or accolades we acquire.”
“And yet, as the author, Rice must also take on Lestat’s role.”
“But it’s also a metaphor for grief: You’re gone, but I see you still, hear you still, love you still.”
“In her own interviews, Rice acknowledged this novel as a response to the death of her daughter, Michele, the child she lost to leukemia.”
“Will he enter our cultural canon and drag his creator along with him?”
“We understand Lestat and the lure of the offer he makes to those he chooses before we ever inhabit his point of view.”
“The depth of our loss can make us feel unfit for society.”
“While we read, while we remain immersed in her words, we brush up against all that is possible in fiction.”
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“She wrote directly into the tradition of folklore, building a new cultural metaphor for the things that frighten and hurt us over the scaffolding of old monsters.”
“Before we even realize it, the transformation takes hold: character becomes legend; author becomes icon.”
“Only a mysterious few transcend this.”
“We can’t quantify what makes a Narnia or a Middle-earth, a Darcy or an Ebenezer Scrooge.”
“This book is about Louis; at least that’s what it says on the tin.”
“It offers an otherworldly explanation for physical malady, but the monster also embodies a shared emotional response.”