Yesterday i read again the rats in the walls of Lovecraft. The motif of the edifice which is built on the rock, and a part of it is lost inside it, then the rats which push the narrator deeper towards his past which also is burried inside that rock, only that the rock is not solid but contains vast open areas with their own buildings and history. The story becomes perhaps too complicated with a complexity which does not grant it any organic development, through the inclusion of many secondary characters which could have been united in one perhaps, and who are distinguished from each other only by their names and the naming of their experties. Then there is one more complexity which has not been adequately developed, in the maiming in the war son, who first felt to be drawn to the ancestral building, and for whom the narrator extracts his revenge during his crisis in the depths of the underground of Exam.
I mostly liked the refference to the movements of the rats, who guided all the more to greater depths, and the fact that they do not last more perhaps than eight pages in retrospect becomes obvious, since even despite the fact that it was their own course which led to the climax of the text, irregardless of that they were allegoric representatives of the ancestors of the narrator, and of himself. Definitely as a hallucination it was dominant, all the more since they presented some never silenced movement inside a solid rock, which however due to their existence it was revealed to be not solid at all, and then despite that they were hallucinations of the narrator they again led to a truelly non solid part of the building, and so they could also be deciphered as un-symbolised urges for an observation of the liquidity in the mental world behind the appearance of a solidly organised thought which in itself is precicely forcing a movement away from a sinking in past periods and their individual mental architecture.
I was also thinking, however, of how the story could have had created an emotion in a very different personality than my own. I have read people mentioning it here, so i suspect that there is something to be said about that, and i am eager to read it
I mostly liked the refference to the movements of the rats, who guided all the more to greater depths, and the fact that they do not last more perhaps than eight pages in retrospect becomes obvious, since even despite the fact that it was their own course which led to the climax of the text, irregardless of that they were allegoric representatives of the ancestors of the narrator, and of himself. Definitely as a hallucination it was dominant, all the more since they presented some never silenced movement inside a solid rock, which however due to their existence it was revealed to be not solid at all, and then despite that they were hallucinations of the narrator they again led to a truelly non solid part of the building, and so they could also be deciphered as un-symbolised urges for an observation of the liquidity in the mental world behind the appearance of a solidly organised thought which in itself is precicely forcing a movement away from a sinking in past periods and their individual mental architecture.
I was also thinking, however, of how the story could have had created an emotion in a very different personality than my own. I have read people mentioning it here, so i suspect that there is something to be said about that, and i am eager to read it
