The Ghost Seer Or The Apparitionist Sport Of Destiny

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The Ghost-Seer; Or, The Apparitionist, written by German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, was originally published in German between 1787 and 1789 in the Journal Thalia. This English edition dates from 1853 as translated by Theodore Martin and Henry George Bohn. Originally being entitled The Armenian.The Ghost-Seer, is Friedrich Schiller's only novel. It is a fragmented experimental work with a complex plot and quasi-operatic setting in Venice. Centred around the tale of a rich young prince and his friend seeking pleasure in Venice. All is well until they meet a strange masked Armenian that spooks the pair by giving them a strange prophecy that comes true. The character develops power over the prince and his friend, drawing them into dark forms of magic and occultism. The narrative becomes increasingly opaque, and it is uncertain whether the apparitions the prince witnesses is a complex hoax or genuine terrors from the spirit-world. The Sport of Destiny is a short story centred around a prince, this time, a power hungry one that is seeking control. The tale plots the insanity that ensues from his intense desire, and his ultimate incarceration.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) was a German poet, dramatist, philosopher and historian. Schiller wrote philosophical papers on aesthetics and ethics. He developed the concept of Schone Seele which translates to beautiful soul. Schiller said that a human being whose emotions have been educated by his reason view beauty and inclination as no longer in conflict with each other. Beauty is not merely sensual but moral as well. The Ghost Seer or the Apparitionist and Sport of Destiny begins with these words. "I am about to relate an adventure which to many will appear incredible, but of which I was in great part an eye-witness. The few who are acquainted with a certain political event will, if indeed these pages should happen to find them alive, receive a welcome solution thereof. And, even to the rest of my readers, it will be, perhaps, important as a contribution to the history of the deception and aberrations of the human intellect. The boldness of the schemes which malice is able to contemplate and to carry out must excite astonishment, as must also the means of which it can avail itself to accomplish its aims. Clear, unvarnished truth shall guide my pen; for, when these pages come before the public, I shall be no more, and shall therefore never learn their fate."