queen of the damned interview with a vampire

As autobiographical narrations with some degree of overlap, both novels share some commonalities in plot and timeline. Narrated by the titular character shortly his reawakening in the 1980s (after a fifty-five-year long sleep during which INTERVIEW has been published as a fictional novel by The Boy), Lestat’s tale is a direct response to Louis’s. It’s a rumination on both Otherness and Immortality, and you don’t get that without leaning into the bizarre. By the end, you’re reeling from both the strangeness and the surfeit of ornamentation.” They’re not wrong-Anne is known for her rich language and love of the baroque, which can sometimes make for a dauting read-but it’s worth noting that THE VAMPIRE LESTAT is, in sum, less one vampire’s story and more a deep exploration of Anne’s entire vampire sociology. Even so, a reviewer for The New York Times bared their fangs at THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, saying it’s, “a lot like spending an entire day in a museum featuring only works by Henry Fuseli – all hung in heavy, gilt frames decorated with curlicues and malicious cherubs. Published in 1985 to spend six weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, THE VAMPIRE LESTAT came nearly a decade after the release of INTERVIEW, which received mixed reviews from critics (some praising Anne’s lush and hypnotic prose and others decrying the novel’s “ suckling eroticism”), but ultimately captured the still-beating hearts of mortal readers worldwide. After Louis de Point du Lac’s less-than-flattering portrayal of his maker, Lestat de Lioncourt, the Brat Prince himself takes center stage in THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, the second installment in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles.

Queen of the damned interview with a vampire