[Essai] The Vampire Armand

[marie.m]

The Vampire Armand est un essai de Carmen Dominique sur l'un des personnages marquants d'Anne Rice. Il peut être lu sur le site de Vampire Bibliographica. Attention, c'est en anglais.

Armand’s tale begins where his impetus to follow faith blindly ends. He has experienced countless instances of devotion to silent, unyielding gods; not always out of true belief, but often out of a need to believe in something. But when he does believe, he believes with a depth and sweetness in a goodness which cannot be identified as anything other than benevolent.

The Vampire Armand is a long-awaited story. The tale of a character that seemed unobtrusive and subtle as the series began, but gradually grew in strength over the audience. As with other, similar scenarios, Armand was introduced in brief in Interview with the Vampire; in The Vampire Lestat, we learnt some of his history to satiate whetted appetites. By the time he resurfaced in Queen of the Damned, we were clamouring for a book from and about him.