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Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
During his lifetime, almost unknown, Lovecraft later became a very controversial figure – from the point of view of evaluating both his life and his work.
Few writers can boast of so many myths and misconceptions about themselves – it is interesting, at the same time, that the biography of Lovecraft is actually not particularly rich in "life events".
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, and lived here almost all his life.
On the mother's side Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft (Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft) – he was a direct descendant of the old Phillips family, up to the first settler George Phillips, who arrived in Massachusetts from England in 1630.
The writer's father, Winfield Scott Lovecraft, was a traveling salesman for a jewelry company.
When Lovecraft was only three years old, his father had a nervous breakdown during a business trip to Chicago.
Winfield Lovecraft was admitted to Butler Hospital, where he died five years later.
Today, there is almost no doubt that the cause of his illness and insanity was progressive paralysis caused by syphilis.
It remains unknown whether the cause of his father's illness was subsequently known to Lovecraft himself.
After the death of his father, Howard was raised by his mother, two of his aunts and his grandfather, the industrialist Whipple Van Buren Phillips, who lived together in the family mansion at 454 Angel Street.
Undoubtedly, the environment of the historical part of his native Providence had a huge impact on the aesthetic views of the future writer: a craving for the colonial past, ancient architecture, to the praise of which Lovecraft almost constantly turns in his work.
And although it is unlikely that Lovecraft's early years can be called happy, this period (and especially the subsequent longing for him) largely shaped him as a person and as a writer.
Lovecraft showed extraordinary abilities from childhood, starting very early to read, write and compose poetry.
Due to his poor health, he often missed school (which he never finished) and spent long hours in the extensive library that belonged to his grandfather.
Lovecraft was fascinated by fantastic since childhood, reading Grimm's fairy tales, the works of Jules Verne and, of course, Edgar Allan Poe, who had the greatest influence on the writer: Lovecraft's first "pen tests" in the field of the fantastic and the unknown were written mainly under the impression of Poe's stories.
Another hobby of Lovecraft was astronomy – and this is a key point in the formation of his worldview.
Thanks to his studies in astronomy, the writer discovered "worlds of boundless spaces", the scale of the universe, which laid the foundation of his philosophy – "cosmic horror" and the simultaneous insignificance of humanity in front of him.
And this philosophy, which should not be forgotten, is devoid of any hope.
This is the main difference between Lovecraft and other horror and science fiction writers – there are not just some mysterious and powerful otherworldly forces in the world.
They, in fact, dominate it, and there is no need to talk about any "victory" over these forces: meeting them threatens at best with madness and terrible nightmares (frequent motives in Lovecraft's work).
In 1904, his grandfather, Whipple Phillips, died, which was a terrible shock for the young Lovecraft.
The financial situation of his family was greatly shaken, and they had to move to a smaller house at 598 on the same Angel Street.
Lovecraft, by his nature very much attached to the" place", was terribly worried, and all his subsequent life he sadly recalled the former house in which he spent short, but perhaps the happiest years of his life.
All this led to the fact that in 1908, now Lovecraft himself has a nervous breakdown, which was further aggravated by a failed attempt to enter Brown University.
However, it was during this period that Lovecraft not only wrote his first serious stories (of which only two have survived – "The Beast in the Cave" and "The Alchemist"), but also began to publish – in The Providence Sunday Journal, which published a brief letter from Lovecraft with a refutation of a local astrologer, as well as in The Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner and in The Providence Tribune, where he led a regular astronomical column.
Little is known about Lovecraft's life between 1908 and 1913.
After the "nervous breakdown" that happened to him, Lovecraft becomes a recluse and practically writes nothing.
His gradual resumption of contact with the outside world is primarily due to the movement of amateur journalists.
Lovecraft becomes first a member of their association, and then its president and editor in chief, becoming one of the most influential figures in this movement.
He began to write again, and in 1917 the stories "Dagon" and "The Crypt"were published.
At the same time, Lovecraft's mother's condition was getting worse, and after a nervous attack in 1919, she finds herself in the same Butler Hospital where her husband once died.
In 1921, she died without ever coming out of there, from an unsuccessful operation on the gallbladder.
By a strange coincidence, in the same 1921, Lovecraft met his future wife, Sonia Haft Greene, who was seven years older than him, at a meeting of the amateur press Association.
Three years later, they got married and settled with Sonya in Brooklyn.
But two years later, their marriage broke up by mutual consent – literature did not bring much income to Lovecraft, and he could not find a permanent job in New York (which is not surprising, given the almost complete lack of experience and formal education).
In addition, New York, with its size and rhythm of life, began to depress the writer more and more (echoes of this can be seen, for example, in the story "A Nightmare in Red Hook").
Lovecraft's literary activity gradually expanded: in 1922, "Herbert West – The Reanimator" was published in the magazine "Home Brew" in the form of a small "series", and in 1923, Lovecraft began cooperation with the publication "Weird Tales" founded at the same time, which would later publish many of his works.
On April 17, 1926, Lovecraft returned to Providence and settled at 10 Barnes Street, north of Brown University.
From this moment, perhaps the most interesting and creatively productive period of the writer's life begins.
He travels around New England, visits Quebec, Philadelphia, Charleston; he continues his incredibly active correspondence and promotes the formation of young writers (among them his friends Robert Bloch and Auguste Derleth).
The most important works of Lovecraft (sometimes called "senior texts"), starting with "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926), were written precisely in the last decade of his life.
Lovecraft lived his last years at 66 College Street, where he moved in 1933.
By 1936, bowel cancer – the disease that caused his death had worsened so much that soon, on March 10, 1937, the writer was admitted to Jane Brown Memorial Hospital, where he died five days later.
Lovecraft is buried in the Phillips family plot at Swan Point Cemetery in Providence.
It is possible that before his death, Lovecraft, who did not print a single book and was published almost exclusively in cheap magazines, foresaw the complete oblivion of all his works.
But fortunately, thanks to his friends (especially Auguste Derleth), this was not the case.
In 1939, the newly formed publishing house Arkham House published the collection "The Outsider and Others" (The Outsider and Others), which included thirty six short stories and an essay "Supernatural horror in literature".
Others followed him, and eventually Lovecraft's works began to be printed by many publishers and translated into foreign languages.
And today, Howard Phillips Lovecraft has long occupied a well deserved place in world literature.
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