THE MONSTRUOSITY IN HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT FROM DIFFERENCE
Keywords: monstrosities; difference; fantastic fiction.
The present academic experimentation is an attempt to establish relationships between the literature of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and the philosophy of difference, especially that produced by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. It is necessary to explore what exists in the multiplicity of Lovecraftian territories, which preserve the intensities of immanent monstrosities. Such monstrosities are aesthetic figures, they are ancestral cosmic creatures and entities that escape attempts at human classifications, which are manifested through difference. These are, in effect, the potentialities invented by Lovecraft to compose his plan of aesthetic composition. The aim, therefore, is to discover how these monstrous potentialities can be related to some of Deleuze & Guattari's many concepts, such as desire, becoming, assemblage, event, rhizome and others. For this endeavor, the fictional work The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, first published in 1943, was adopted as an object of research.