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A Fragment of Life
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781528704175
Publisher: Fantasy and Horror Classics
Published: Mar 29 2018
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A Fragment of Life is a quietly subversive and deeply evocative novella by Arthur Machen, contrasting the drab, soul-crushing routine of modern London life with the profound, mystical truth of the natural world.
The story centers on Edward Darnell, an ordinary man living a sterile, bureaucratic existence in a suburb of London. Darnell and his wife feel a persistent, unnamed dissatisfaction--a deep, yearning intuition that they are missing something fundamental about life. This feeling is triggered by fleeting, beautiful visions: a glow on a suburban street, a sudden shift in the quality of light, or the sound of an impossible, distant music.
Driven by this profound sense of discontent, Darnell and his wife make a radical decision: they abandon their modern life and move to a remote cottage in the Welsh countryside. There, they begin to shed their urban identities and immerse themselves in the deep, ancient soul of the land.
A Fragment of Life is a beautiful, melancholic, and ultimately hopeful work of weird fiction. It inverts Machen's usual horror, suggesting that while the ancient world holds terror, it also holds the promise of a glorious, ecstatic truth that can liberate the soul from the prison of the mundane.
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