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De nos jours, à la Nouvelle-Oréans, un jeune homme a été convoqué dans l'obscurité d'une chambre d'hôtel pour écouter la plus étrange histoire qui soit. Tandis que tourne le magnétophone, son mystérieux interlocuteur raconte sa vie, sa vie de vampire.
Comme l'interviewer, nous nous laissons subjuguer, fasciner et entraîner à travers les siècles dans un monde sensuel et terrifiant ou l'atroce le dispute au sublime.
Véritable livre culte, premier volet des désormais imcontournables Chroniques des vampires, Entretien avec un vampire renouvelle totalement l'un des mythes les plus riches et les plus ambigus du fantastique.
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gothic horror, vampire literature, Vampires, Translations into Spanish, Fiction, Novela, Spanish imprints, Spanish fiction, American fiction, Vampiros, Horror fiction, Vampires in fiction, Imaginary interviews, Lestat (Fictitious character), Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Lestat (fictitious character), fiction, Vampires, fiction, Italy, fiction, Fiction, horror, Fiction, ghost, Fiction, general, French fiction, Romans, nouvelles, Roman françaisPeople
Lestat (Fictitious character), Lestat (Fictional character), Louis de Pointe du Lac, Lestat de Lioncourt, Claudia, Armand, Madeleine, Daniel MolloyPlaces
New Orleans, Paris, French Quarter, Europe, Theatre des Vampires, LouisianaTimes
1791, 20th century, 1920sShowing 10 featured editions. View all 75 editions?
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Interview With the Vampire
2014?, Ballantine Books
Paperback
in English
- 20th Anniversary Edition; 1st Ballantine Books trade edition (19)
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Interview With the Vampire
2007-06, Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf
Hardcover
in English
- Anniversary Edition, Twenty-ninth printing
0394498216 9780394498218
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Entretien avec un vampire
2005-06, Fleuve noir
Mass Market Paperback
in French
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Entrevista con el Vampiro: (Confesiones de un vampiro)
1994, Timun Mas, Aims Intl Books Corp
Paperback
in Spanish
8448000412 9788448000417
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Interview with the Vampire: Book I of The Vampire Chronicles
1993?, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Ballantine Books edition (63)
0345337662 9780345337665
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Entretien avec un vampire
September 1992, Presse Pocket
Mass Market Paperback
in French
2266034839 9782266034838
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Interview with the Vampire: Book I of The Vampire Chronicles
1988-10, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Ballantine Books edition, 25th printing
0345337662 9780345337665
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Interview With the Vampire: a novel
1982-12, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Ballantine Books edition, 7th printing
0345310594 9780345310590
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"— Je vois..., dit Ie vampire d'un air pensif."
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This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows through the streets of New Orleans, defining crucial moments such as his discovery of the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her with the last breaths of humanity he has inside. Yet, he makes Claudia a vampire, trapping her womanly passion, will, and intelligence inside the body of a small child. Louis and Claudia form a seemingly unbreakable alliance and even "settle down" for a while in the opulent French Quarter. Louis remembers Claudia's struggle to understand herself and the hatred they both have for Lestat that sends them halfway across the world to seek others of their kind. Louis and Claudia are desperate to find somewhere they belong, to find others who understand, and someone who knows what and why they are.
Louis and Claudia travel Europe, eventually coming to Paris and the ragingly successful Theatre des Vampires--a theatre of vampires pretending to be mortals pretending to be vampires. Here they meet the magnetic and ethereal Armand, who brings them into a whole society of vampires. But Louis and Claudia find that finding others like themselves provides no easy answers and in fact presents dangers they scarcely imagined.
Originally begun as a short story, the book took off as Anne wrote it, spinning the tragic and triumphant life experiences of a soul. As well as the struggles of its characters, Interview captures the political and social changes of two continents. The novel also introduces Lestat, Anne's most enduring character, a heady mixture of attraction and revulsion. The book, full of lush description, centers on the themes of immortality, change, loss, sexuality, and power.
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