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50614788. Zastrozzi: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1810 in London by George Wilkie and John Robinson anonymously, with only the initials of the author's name, as "by P.B.S.". The first of Shelley's two early Gothic novellas, the other being St. Irvyne, outlines his atheistic worldview through the villain ...
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 119 (2002 edition)
- 1810
- George Wilkie and John Robinson, 1810
Zastrozzi, the master criminal in all of Europe and an atheist, like the character in the 1810 novel and Shelley himself, has focused for nearly three years on the pursuit of revenge against his mother's murderer: the whimsical, inconstant, and delusively God-obsessed artiste Verezzi. In the Shelley novel, Zastrozzi's mother Olivia was seduced ...
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zastrozzi is p.b shelley's first prosaic. it is mainly about obsession, desperation, and revenge—how one would do absolutely everything, even out of moral compass, just to get something they want. this book is a short read but has vivid descriptions of a horrific revenge. not too bad for his first prose, although there are some paragraphs ...
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Jun 17, 2019 · Sabre Rattling. You wouldn’t know it from the premise, but Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline isn’t a swashbuckler, a melodrama, or even a revenge play. It doesn’t have the good taste to resemble a true tragedy or comedy, nor the bad taste to drown in blood, blasphemy, and Freudian oblivion. It’s a light morality play about a couple of ...
Sep 23, 2021 · Zastrozzi. Zastrozzi (1810) by Percy Bysshe Shelley. a Gothic novel published in 1810. The first of Shelley's early Gothic novels, it outlines his atheistic worldview through the villain Zastrozzi and touches upon his earliest thoughts on irresponsible self-indulgence and violent revenge.
Zastrozzi, the master criminal of all Europe and a self-proclaimed atheist, like the character in the 1810 novel and Shelley himself, has focused for nearly three years on the pursuit of revenge against the murderer of his mother, the whimsical, unconstant, and delusively God-obsessed artiste Verezzi. In the Shelley novel, Zastrozzi’s mother ...
Zastrozzi, A Romance. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) “Would Julia of Strobazzo’s heart was reeking on my dagger!” From the asthmatic urgency of its opening abduction scene to the Satanic defiance of the villain’s departure “with a wild convulsive laugh of exulting revenge”, this first of Shelley’s Gothic novelettes recycles much sensational boyhood reading and also points to ...
