Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Rodolphus Dark Literary Fiction

Before King and even Lovecraft, there were the dark writers Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Bronte. The latter explosively released the character Heathcliff into the world, in a black-light burst of birth fire. If there is any character as dark and yet as romantically attractive as Bronte's antihero— either before or after—it would be difficult to achieve any kind of consensus, official or otherwise. Perhaps Sherlock Holmes, or Jack London's Wolf Larsen.

The flawed hero captivates us. He or she is us, dark thoughts and impulses and all, achieving something grand, despite the very real weaknesses, the poor choices. The confusion of mind. And yet that strength of will. The keen daggers emanating from the eyes. The lowering brow, the intense clench of the forehead.

This good antihero, or this heroic villain, is the key factor that inspired Rodolphus into the intense writer his books prove him to be. Because Rodolphus, although tragically flawed, achieved heroic proportions in surviving both his life and career. Rodolphus created something different, even though it is certainly not perfect.

The Rodolphus stories are dark. The Rodolphus stories are violent. The Rodolphus stories are not for everyone.

But Rodolphus heroes rise above the darkness. And the Rodolphus stories, though murky, dark (with the strange light of orange eyes, just there on the periphery), cast beams of illumination. Rodolphus is a lantern moving strangely through the close woods.




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