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April 19, 2005
Novem Portis de Umbrarum Regni
"The Engravings of The Club Dumas and The Ninth Gate" hosts images of woodcut engravings, designed by the Spanish artist Francisco Solé, from a fictional grimoire. I have copies of the images themselves as tarot cards in the Flea Towers collection. They were part of a promotional kit for the film and irresistible to a collector of the eldritch and the outré.
Doing book research is one of my passions. There is a thrill to cracking open a musty tome long out of print and discovering things that have been forgotten. Although research is generally a harmless, solitary activity, what would happen if you were to stumble across a book that contained dark secrets- a book that people were willing to kill for?
This is the premise behind Arturo Perez Reverte's novel The Club Dumas (originally published in Spanish as El Club Dumas) and its film adaptation The Ninth Gate. The protagonist in the story is a modern-day "book detective" named Corso, a scholarly P.I. who gets paid to research rare books. Corso gets in over his head, however, when he agrees to study the last three surviving copies of a 17th century occult work that allegedly has the power to summon the Devil.
This is the premise behind Arturo Perez Reverte's novel The Club Dumas (originally published in Spanish as El Club Dumas) and its film adaptation The Ninth Gate. The protagonist in the story is a modern-day "book detective" named Corso, a scholarly P.I. who gets paid to research rare books. Corso gets in over his head, however, when he agrees to study the last three surviving copies of a 17th century occult work that allegedly has the power to summon the Devil.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at April 19, 2005 10:45 AM
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