Silent Snow, Secret Snow
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"Silent Snow, Secret Snow" (1934) is Conrad Aiken's best-known short story, often included in anthologies of classic American horror and fantasy short fiction.
It tells of a normal boy's descent into schizophrenia,[1] in this case a dream world of snow that he finds preferable to the "dirty," mundane world. The story can also be thought of as a Symbolist rejection of reality.
[edit] Adaptations
The story was dramatized as an episode of Night Gallery, starring Radames Pera (young "Grasshopper" from the original Kung Fu television series) with voice-over narration by Orson Welles.
[edit] References
- ^ Lavery, D. L. (1983). "The delicious progress": Whiteness as an atavism in conrad aiken's "silent snow, secret snow.". Psychoanalytic Review, 70(2), 235-239.
