“Interpreting ‘Suzanne Delage’ As Dracula”, Gwern2009-02-23 (literary criticism, Wolfe’s “Delage” , insight porn; backlinks)⁠:

On the interpretation of Gene Wolfe’s short story ‘Suzanne Delage’ as inversion of Bram Stoker’s Dracula horror novel.

The 1980_44ya Gene Wolfe short story “Suzanne Delage” is a cryptic 6-page memoir about an apparently uneventful quotidian early-1900s American life, and has defied literary analysis for decades.

I solve it as an inversion of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

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• The Story
  • Allusions
    • Historical Location
    • Chesterton
    • Hamlet
    • Proust
    • Pie Club
• External Evidence
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Virginia Kidd
  • Edges Covers
• Analysis
  • Shaggy Dog Story
  • Missed Chances
    • Yes, It’s A Trap
  • Desiderata & Theories
  • Proust Connection
    • Tadashi Wakashima2022
  • Snow White
  • Cloning
  • There Can Only Be One
  • The Spanish Influenza
  • Affair
    • Pregnancy
  • Smallpox
    • Objections
  • Lesbian MILFs
  • Ghosts
  • Vampires
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula
  • Inversion
  • Explanations
    • Hamlet
    • Nationalism
    • Textiles
      • Hampton Court
    • Certain Racial Minorities
    • Certain Fundamentalist Church
    • Pie Club Irony
    • The Annotated Dracula
      • SD’s Inspiration?
  • The True Story
    • Open Questions
    • Interpretation
• External Links

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