Le marais louisianais ou Legrasse fait sa descente — Marc St. Gil · Public domain · Commons
Rapport
6 œuvres sur 222, 14 occurrences — 70ᵉ entité la plus citée du wiki sur 139. Parutions transcrites de 1928 (L’Appel de Cthulhu) à 1954 (Le Survivant), sur 5 œuvres datées. (dates des numéros transcrits, posthumes comprises.) Le foyer est L’Appel de Cthulhu : 5 occurrences, 36 % du total. Densité : 2,2 occurrences pour 10 000 mots dans les œuvres concernées. Voisine surtout Inspecteur John Raymond Legrasse : 4 rapprochements dans un même passage. 2 fiches du wiki y renvoient.
Les marais fournissent à L’Appel de Cthulhu sa scène de culte. La page est aussi l’une des plus ouvertement racistes du corpus : Lovecraft y décrit les cultistes en termes qui n’appartiennent pas à la fiction. Voir le-racisme-de-lovecraft.
Attestations dans le corpus
| Œuvre | Année | Occurrences | Part |
|---|---|---|---|
| L’Appel de Cthulhu | 1928 | 5 | 36 % |
| La Chevelure de Méduse | — | 3 | 21 % |
| À travers les portes de la Clef d’argent | 1951 | 3 | 21 % |
| Autobiography | 1943 | 1 | 7 % |
| Hors du temps | 1933 | 1 | 7 % |
| Le Survivant | 1954 | 1 | 7 % |
| Total | 14 |
Ce que le corpus en dit
Une phrase par œuvre, prise à l’endroit de la première occurrence.
Legrasse, 121 Bienville St., New Orleans, La., at 1908 A. A. S. Mtg.—Notes on Same, & Prof. Webb’s Acct.” The other manuscript papers were all brief notes, some of them accounts of the queer dreams of different persons, some of them citations from theosophical books and magazines (notably W.
— L’Appel de Cthulhu, 5 occurrences
It was rather lonely after that; and in ‘85 I married a distant cousin in New Orleans. Things might have been different if she’d lived, but she died when my son Denis was born.
— La Chevelure de Méduse, 3 occurrences
For there, in the New Orleans home of this continent’s greatest mystic, mathematician and orientalist, there was being settled at last the estate of a scarcely less great mystic, scholar, author and dreamer who had vanished from the face of the earth four years before.
— À travers les portes de la Clef d’argent, 3 occurrences
My chief delight outside literature became the past-reviving quest for ancient architectural and landscape effects in the old colonial towns and byways of America’s longest-settled regions, and gradually I have managed to cover a considerable territory from glamorous Quebec on the north to tropical Key West on the south and colourful Natchez and New Orleans on the west.
One result of these catechisms was a highly learned article in The Occult Review by the famous New Orleans mystic Etienne-Laurent de Marigny, in which was asserted the complete identity of some of the odd geometrical designs on the iridescent cylinder, and of several of the hieroglyphs on the membraneous scroll, with certain ideographs …
I came to Providence, Rhode Island, in 1930, intending to make only a brief visit and then to go on to New Orleans.
Rencontres dans le texte
Entités dont une occurrence figure à moins de 320 signes de celle-ci — même phrase ou phrase voisine.
I visited New Orleans, talked with Legrasse and others of that old-time raiding-party, saw the frightful image, and even questioned such of the mongrel prisoners as still survived.
The statuette, idol, fetish, or whatever it was, had been captured some months before in the wooded swamps south of New Orleans during a raid on a supposed voodoo meeting; and so singular and hideous were the rites connected with it, that the police could not but realize that they had stumbled on a dark cult totally unknown to them, and infinitely more diabolic than even the blackest of the African voodoo circles.
— L’Appel de Cthulhu, avec L’idole de Cthulhu
… byways of America’s longest-settled regions, and gradually I have managed to cover a considerable territory from glamorous Quebec on the north to tropical Key West on the south and colourful Natchez and New Orleans on the west. Among my favorite towns, aside from Providence, are Quebec; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Salem and Marblehead in Massachusetts; Newport in my own state; Philadelphia; Annapolis; Richmond with its wealth of Poe memories; eighteenth-century Charleston; …
— Autobiography, avec Providence
Croisements
Entités qui partagent ses œuvres, les plus spécifiques d’abord ; entre parenthèses, le nombre d’œuvres communes.
Personnages — Abdul Alhazred (4), Inspecteur John Raymond Legrasse (1), Richard Upton Pickman (2), Capitaine Obed Marsh (1)
Divinités — Cthulhu (5), Ghatanothoa (1), Shub-Niggurath (3), Yog-Sothoth (3), Dagon (2), Tsathoggua (2), Nug et Yeb (1)
Créatures — Les Anciens (2)
Lieux — Yuggoth (4), Providence (4), R’lyeh (2), Irem (2), Le plateau de Leng (2), Le Récif du Diable (1), Arkham (3), Kingsport (2)
Objets — Le Necronomicon (5), L’idole de Cthulhu (1), Les Manuscrits pnakotiques (3), Unaussprechlichen Kulten (2), La Clef d’argent (1)
Thématiques — L’architecture non euclidienne (1), Le culte (1)
Entourage — August Derleth (1), Clark Ashton Smith (3)
Dans les revues
L’Appel de Cthulhu — Weird Tales, 1928 (numéro de l’année, pas forcément celui-ci) · Le Survivant — Weird Tales, juillet 1954
Fiches qui renvoient ici
Inspecteur John Raymond Legrasse · L’idole de Cthulhu