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« Howard Phillips Lovecraft »
Nomination of the conference: “A Famous person in Literature”

and science-fiction
writer
The object of our study – Howard Phillips Lovecraft
The subject of the research - is a biography of Lovecraft and its influence on
his literary tastes

The tasks:
to be familiar with the biography; - to learn how he started generating a trend in fantasy, science fiction (sci-fi) writing.; - to find out various themes and concepts of his works - try to answer the question what is he?;
Importance of the research
This material will let people who is fond of science fiction to get to know the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and understand why eventually Lovecraft’s works became available in paperback and were translated into a dozen languages

His father was a travelling salesman of jewelry and precious metals. Unfortunately, when Lovecraft was 3 years old, his father was in psychotic depression while on his business trip, that’s why he was shifted to his hometown where he stayed till his death. Lovecraft was brought up by his mother, Sarah Susan Philips, two of his aunts and his grandfather, who was an American businessman. It’s a well-known faсt that Howard was an unusual kid, at the age of three he could read poetry. He was the so called child-prodigy. When he was 6 he began writing complete poems.

his mother. He wrote certain amount of fiction during his youth. In 1914 he joined to the pulp magazine. He wrote and submitted many poems and essays there. In 1919 his first professional work “Dagon” was published. The same year his mother suffered from depression and hysteria, like his father. She died in two years having left Lovecraft alone and devastated. After his mother’s death, Lovecraft came across Sonia Greene and soon they married. But some years later they divorced.

of the most central themes was forbidden knowledge also he used the ideas of guilt and fate in his works. Lovecraft's guiding aesthetic and philosophical principle was what he termed "cosmicism" or "cosmic horror", the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally inimical to the interests of humankind. As such, his stories express a profound indifference to human beliefs and affairs. The next one was racism. Howard held English people above all others. He paid attention to the Universe and fictional elements, such as places, names and entities

years. 2 groups of enthusiasts played the main role in this meeting. They are: Evgeniy Golovin is a writer of sociopolitical literature from St.Petersburg and Valeriya Bernatskaya is an interpreter from Moscow. Nowadays the books of Lovecraft are republished in Russia by 3 large publishing houses – “Azbuka”, “AST”, and “Ecsmo”. In 2006 the interest to Lovecraft’s works was heated up after the action “The question to Putin” where the President of Russia was asked the questions which were chosen by internet voting. During the vote as a result of flash mob the fun question “How do you feel about Cthulhu?” had won. After this the name and figure of Cthulhu is used in runet more often.

whose life and
character were documented so
carefully, whose works were so
unestablished during the life and
would be so well known after his
death. His works are so unique
that they are alloted in a special
genre – so called Lovecraft’s horror.
There are a lot of reasons and to
explain them it is necessary not
only to explore the life, character
of Lovecraft but explore
different aspects of the literature
on the whole

grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. Stephen King called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." . Much remains to be done in the study of Lovecraft, but it is safe to say that, thanks to the intrinsic merit of his own work and to the diligence of his associates and supporters, Lovecraft has gained a small but unassailable niche in the canon of American and world literature. The strong point of Lovecraft is his ability to create a special atmosphere of madness, “cosmic horror” and nightmares which human mind fail to understand

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