洛夫克拉夫特《人之本性》

洛夫克拉夫特,作为怪奇文学史上一个绕不过去的形象,在中文世界的流行程度一直呈增长之势,而越来越多的读者似乎也开始注意到了他在文学背后掩藏着的政治和社会观念。这些观念中的许多在如今看来已经过了时,但仍然不失为了解他创作动机和想象源泉的渠道之一。以下是其中一篇,发表于1918年7月,第一次世界大战的最后几个月时间里。

Frederick Douglass Narrative and Analysis

Racial inequalities always exist, and slavery in 19th-century United States was among the most horrible expressions of this stereotypic assumption, which many advocates worked hard to eliminate and abolish. Frederick Douglass, born around 1818, was a slave for life in Maryland before his successful escape to New York in 1838. His famous slave narrative not …