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Il racconto John Crowley's gloss in his rather beautiful edition is that it's a a deliberate spoof of hermetic fantasies, even as it went on to inspire plenty itself, and b one of the first science fiction novels. He may be deliberately trolling, but he's certainly no more wrong than anyone else.
Five stars for Theo's fantastic illustrations alone. Each drawing rewards any extra attention the viewer pays, with layers of meaning and witty details. The narrator's character as a man who is simultaneously vain and earnest; simultaneously childish and heroic; simultaneously ridiculous and touching, couldn't be more exactly or more entertainingly conveyed than by the representations here. The text is a wild ride for someone like me who knew nothing about alchemy or Rosicrucians, but John Crowl Five stars for Theo's fantastic illustrations alone.
The text is a wild ride for someone like me who knew nothing about alchemy or Rosicrucians, but John Crowley's notes prove to be an enchanting and reassuring guide through this wacky allegorical tale of blood, ashes, death and resurrection, royal authority, transparent jelly-ish bodies, green souls, and baroque scientific-magical processes. He struck an appealing balance between scholarly interest and careful artistic interpretation that made the fascinating and modern-relevant components of a potentially obscure story shine through.
It's hard for me to rate this.
As a primary source, a glimpse into the lives and fascinations of the seventeenth century, it's worth reading. And the author's humor still works for at least this modern-day reader; I giggled throughout at the protagonist's mastery of the humblebrag. It's a shaggy dog story, it's an allegory, it's a hoax, it's a joke, and it's certainly a swift and fun read--but what it's not, by modern standards, is a novel.
And that's okay, but it makes it awfully hard to rank i It's hard for me to rate this. And that's okay, but it makes it awfully hard to rank it on the same star rating system as everything else I read.
Format: Paperback. Many symbols in this drawing. Il racconto The Three Royal Couples: After having ascended a spiral staircase CRC arrives at the Bridal Room: there are three thrones with three royal couples: young, middle aged and old. Other editions.
I didn't know what this was at all until I cracked open the beautiful hardcover book, and started reading Crowley's introduction. It's his annotated edition of a little alchemical tale, of a man Christian Rosencreutz invited to a strange royal wedding, and the trials and rewards as he goes through all the tests I don't know what to make of this at all! Crowley's annotations were very helpful, to point out the symbolism and context. But even the I didn't know what this was at all until I cracked open the beautiful hardcover book, and started reading Crowley's introduction.
But even then, the story is just so strange! It's easy to see why it puzzles and intrigues people who want to interpret and reinterpret and create very convoluted explanations for everything, and read it all as allegorical. Sometimes it contradicts itself, or goes very odd, and no one knows if there are actual errors or if it was intentional. And then the ending! Is there an eighth day?
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz is a German book edited in in Strasbourg. Its anonymous authorship is attributed to Johann Valentin. The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, often looked upon as the third Rosicrucian manifesto, has an entirely different tone from the other Rosicrucian.
As Crowley argues. Is the ending really missing, or did Andreae actually write it that way?
Superficially, The Chemical Wedding is pretty fantastic. A great weird story to spend an evening on. And anyone who wants to try to explain it is in for some fun. I'm not sure I'm convinced by Crowley's argument that this is very early science fiction pre-dating Somnium , which I haven't read. He's saying that alchemy was the science of Andreae's day, and points out a few of the grand-scale and completely geeky elements that would be alchemy's version of sci fi nerdery. I get the gist of this, I think, but on the whole it didn't feel like science fiction, but rather overwhelmingly like a fantastical fable.
Note about this edition: I backed Small Beer Press's Kickstarter and got the absolutely gorgeous hardcover edition. It's really stunning on the outside, but I also thought all the little details inside were perfect.
Theo Fadel's illustrations were spot on. The annotations, page numbers, and quotes are in red. I just think the page layout and typography is a joy to look at! I had heard the term "chemical wedding" used in reference to alchemy, and may even have heard reference to the original work at some point. It seemed like it might be interesting as a more approachable, slightly modernized version of document contemporary with alchemy as an actual science; and I think alchemy is neat.
The book proved to be disappointing. As John Crowley writes in his introduction, the purported original author of this work, Johannn Andreae, claimed to have written it as a joke, and that seems about right for how it reads. It was either entirely a lark, or else it was a commentary on contemporary issues, the import of which is now lost. Either way the result is a bunch of allegory and obtuse mystification which evokes alchemical traditions, but doesn't seem to provide any true insight into the practice.
The modern additions to this work are also underwhelming: Crowley's introduction is decent, but his notes throughout the book vary between actual useful information, like the explanation of cyphers, and something amounting to him saying "ooh, this part will be really important later," again and again; the illustrations by Theo Fadel are in the style of caricature with weird bobble heads and over-emphasized features that I generally find unattractive, and while the style plays into Andreae's assertion that the work is a joke, it really undercuts Crowley's argument that it should be taken seriously as an early work of science fiction.
Sep 20, Greg rated it really liked it Shelves: mysticism. This is a nice translation of one of the three foundation texts of Rosicrucianism. It includes a very helpful commentary on some of the symbolism of the allegory.
Recommended reading for people interested in Rosicrucianism. Weird stuff. Post-modernism has trained me to be suspicious, so when I first picked up this book I suspected it was actually meta-meta-fiction, a completely fictive pastiche of old alchemical allegories written by a contemporary writer. Then I fact-checked the existence of Andreae on Wikipedia, and realized that yeah, this is actually a real Reformation-era text. Well, damn. Fortunately, my suspicion that this book is just out to mess with people turned out to not be misplaced.
Andreae, the man Weird stuff. Andreae, the man from the 's who said he wrote it, eventually admitted it was just a big joke--though a lot of people refused to believe him. And therein lies the whole strange appeal of the CW: just when you think it's a joke, it suddenly flips and sounds like it means something again, and vice-versa. Crowley definitely delights in deepening the CW's mystique. His notes are anti-commentary as often as they're clear--one of his most common refrains is "This part is definitely allegorical for something, but I have no idea what that something is.
It might be about alchemy, or the Gospels, or the Reformation, or it might be a parody of all of that. Or none of those things.
It doesn't resolve and it only gets weirder. On the other hand: there's alchemy, riddles, weird mystic shit, lots of flirting, lots of snark, and a math puzzle, so as far as old books go, this is pretty great!
It's much more readable than anything you ever find in a serious old Christian Allegory like the Romance of the Rose or Dante's Paradiso. Just treat it like, as Crowley likes to say, the first sci-fi novel. Also, the illustrations are really funny. I came to this book with high expectations: John Crowley fan? Alchemy nerd? What I hadn't bargained on was Crowley's apparent agnosticism about the whole thing, and I feel so silly for not having expected that. His nuanced way of exploring magic is of the things I love about him!
But, The Chemical Wedding has such a reputation as a formative esoteric text that I actually thought he would tell us what it means and what it means for his writing. Once I let go of my original expectati I came to this book with high expectations: John Crowley fan? His historical reading fits so well with his thoughts on how magic and time are related, as in the Aegypt Cycle, and the more I sat with it all, I realized my expectations were met after all, in the lovely disorienting way that seems to happen with Crowley's works.
Most of all, I enjoyed his thoughts on the question of the eighth day. Jul 08, AL rated it it was amazing.
Luckily, McLean is here to inform readers of the true secrets within the allegory. The story itself? Kind of compelling, but does feel its age. What is great are the footnotes throughout giving some solid historical context to the text and the probable thinking that went into the storytelling. The documentation is ultimately what makes this worth the time, and if you can get your hands on this specific version of the story, you should absolutely do it. I loved Aegypt and the books that followed it and wanted more like that: beautiful meditations on the occult full of deep, rounded characters struggling to make sense of life and time and death.
Instead, this is a straight translation of Andreae's hoaxy novel with some annotations by Crowley. Not enough Crowley for my taste.