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| Jan 22, 2017 at 3:42 | comment | added | amaranth | I remain perplexed. I feel like "Fragment of a Novel" wouldn't have been based on The Vampyre. If Byron edited his published story to distance it from The Vampyre, it seems like that still wouldn't make it based on that story. The last section of this page suggests that Byron based his 1816 story in part on Coleridge's Christabel. Some reading on Wikipedia and in those "Byronic hero" questions on this site make me think that the vampire in Byron's story/stories could also be based in part on Byron's own personality. | |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 4:23 | comment | added | amaranth | Maybe this depends on how similar the published "Fragment" is to the story that Byron originally told. The bolded portion of the first quote makes it sound like they are the same thing: written in 1816 and published in 1819 after The Vampyre. But if "Fragment" was rewritten after reading The Vampyre, then I don't know what to think... | |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 3:50 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | @amaranth The Wikipedia page on "Fragment of a Novel" is confusingly worded. As I understand it (see the first quote block above), Byron told one story verbally during that stay in Switzerland, which inspired Polidori to create the story he later published as The Vampyre for that competition, which in turn goaded Byron to publish "Fragment of a Novel". | |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 3:47 | comment | added | amaranth | Have I been reading everything backwards? I thought the "Fragment of a Novel" was the original story told at that competition, on which The Vampyre was based. | |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 3:45 | history | answered | Rand al'Thor♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |