Claude Fierobe

If the name of Reverend Charles Robert Maturin is not only known by the amateurs of roman noir, it is because he is often associated to famous authors like Byron, Poe, Goethe, Baudelaire or Balzac. This book aims at giving a more truthful and more complete image of both Maturin and his work…

The comparative study of two figures — Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), who reigned in Wallachia from 1456 to 1462, and Dracula, hero of the eponymous 1897 novel — allows to define the nature of the relation between myth and history. It also allows to explain the genesis of a literary myth…

The short story, one of the most demanding literary genres by the concentration and limited effects it requires, attracted Irish writers because of its variety and the immense field it offers to imagination. It originated in the Gaelic folklore stories…

Ireland's entry in the common market? Civil War in the North? Need to rediscover a remote but so similar fellow, to change landscape and myths? There may be many reasons but the fact is France is more and more interested in its Celtic sister…