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10 books, 9 films and 8 songs about eclipses

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · · 1616 words · By Lucia Blasco; Jesús Maturana
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What to know about 10 books, 9 films and 8 songs about eclipses

With the 12 August total solar eclipse in sight, remember this cosmic event has long shaped culture, as spectacle and storytelling tool.

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What happened

With the 12 August total solar eclipse in sight, remember this cosmic event has long shaped culture, as spectacle and storytelling tool.

Why it matters

Since Antiquity, eclipses have been interpreted as omens, as punishment or as romantic metaphors, and that fascination has left its mark on literature, cinema and music.

Common ground

In fact, the phenomenon has been depicted in numerous paintings, but how have eclipses influenced the most popular artistic creations?

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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Claim 1: “'Total Eclipse', Klaus Nomi (1981)... which he first performed at the festival "Urgh! A Music War" in 1980.”
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Claim 2: “'Total Eclipse of the Heart', Bonnie Tyler (1983) Written and produced by Jim Steinman”
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Claim 3: “In 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' (Mark Twain, 1889)... [Hank Morgan] remembers that a solar eclipse is approaching and threatens to plunge the world into darkness”
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Multiple sources (Canon+, Solar Eclipse: The Sun-Eating Dragon, and Wikipedia) confirm that Hank Morgan uses his knowledge of a solar eclipse to deceive others in Mark Twain's novel.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a 1949 American comedy musical film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and William Bendix. Based on t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_A…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 historical novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_A…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A Connecticut Yankee is a 1931 American pre-Code fantasy comedy film adaptation of Mark Twain's 1889 novel, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. It was directed by David Butler to a script by …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_(film)
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Claim 4: “'Bad Moon Rising', Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969) Written by John Fogerty”
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Claim 5: “In 'Verónica' (Paco Plaza, 2017) Set during the 1991 solar eclipse in Madrid”
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Claim 6: “'Eclipse', Delta Goodrem (2026) The Australian singer represented her country at Eurovision 2026 with this track, written together with Jonas Myrin, Ferras Alqaisi and Michael Fatkin”
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Claim 7: “'Eclipse', Pink Floyd (1973) The track closes the album 'The Dark Side of the Moon'”
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Claim 8: “That same Italian eclipse of 1961 inspired Antonioni to choose the title of this film [Eclipse, 1962]”
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Claim 9: “In 'King Solomon's Mines' (H. Rider Haggard, 1885)... an explorer who knows the date of an imminent eclipse persuades the Kukuana tribe that he can hide the Sun”
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Wikipedia confirms the book and author, but the specific plot point about the Kukuana tribe and the eclipse is not explicitly detailed in the provided evidence snippets, though it appears in a list of 'books about eclipses'.
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web search NEUTRAL — With the 12 August total solar eclipse in sight, remember this cosmic event has long shaped culture, as spectacle and storytelling tool. Here is a cultural selection inspired by it.View on euronews.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/10-books-9-films-8-063110692.html
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web search NEUTRAL — King Solomon's Mines is an 1885 popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist H. Rider Haggard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Solomon's_Mines
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web search NEUTRAL — King Solomon's Mines study guide contains a biography of H. Rider Haggard, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
https://www.gradesaver.com/king-solomons-mines/study-guide/s…
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Claim 10: “In 'You're So Vain', Carly Simon (1972)... the singer tells how the song's protagonist flies by private jet to Nova Scotia, in Canada, to witness a total solar eclipse”
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Claim 11: “To film the crucifixion scene in [Barabbas (1961)], the crew timed the shoot to coincide with a real solar eclipse that took place in Italy on 15 February 1961”
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Claim 12: “In 'Total Eclipse' (Annie Dillard, 1982)... recounts the author's journey to the Yakima Valley in Washington State to observe a total eclipse in 1979.”
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Claim 13: “Tyler died last July at the age of 75”
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Claim 14: “With the 12 August total solar eclipse in sight”
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Multiple independent news sources (EuroNews, The Conversation, France24) confirm a total solar eclipse will occur on August 12, 2026, affecting Spain, Iceland, and Greenland.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemispher…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — August 4 is the 216th day of the year (217th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 149 days remain until the end of the year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_4
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — August 6 is the 218th day of the year (219th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 147 days remain until the end of the year.
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Claim 15: “In 'Nightfall' (Isaac Asimov, 1941) On the planet Lagash, permanently lit by six suns... astronomers announce that a total eclipse will leave the planet without light for the first time in 2,000 years”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to verify the plot details of Isaac Asimov's 'Nightfall'.
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Claim 16: “In 'Apocalypto' (Mel Gibson, 2006)... the film shows its protagonist about to be sacrificed atop a Maya pyramid when a solar eclipse... allows him to save his life.”
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Claim 17: “In 'Gerald's Game' (Stephen King, 1992)... this novel also assigns a key role to the 1963 eclipse”
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The 'Analysis of Stephen King’s Novels' source explicitly states that both 'Gerald’s Game' and 'Dolores Claiborne' feature the total solar eclipse seen in Maine in 1963.
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web search NEUTRAL — A complete list of Stephen King's Novels and Novellas., organized alphabetically.
https://stephenking.com/works/novel/index.html
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web search NEUTRAL — A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21, 1963, with a magnitude of 1.0224.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_20,_1963
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web search NEUTRAL — When Netflix announced they were adapting Stephen King's 1992 book Gerald's Game into a movie, it seemed an odd choice out of the author's vast body of work.
https://www.bustle.com/p/is-geralds-game-based-on-a-true-sto…
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Claim 18: “The song [Eclipse by Delta Goodrem] reached the final of the festival, held in Vienna, where it finished in fourth place.”
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Claim 19: “In Book 20 of the poem [The Odyssey], the seer Theoclymenus interprets a sudden darkening of the sky as heralding the imminent death of Penelope's suitors”
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Web search results from Yahoo News Canada and a study on omens in The Odyssey confirm that in Book 20, Theoclymenus interprets a darkening of the sky as a sign of the suitors' death.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "Homer's Odyssey" is the third episode of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on January 21, 1990. In this episode, Homer becomes a cr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer's_Odyssey_(The_Simpsons)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In the Odyssey, Mentor (Greek: Μέντωρ, Méntōr) was the son of Alcimus. In his old age Mentor was a friend of Odysseus. When Odysseus left for the Trojan War, he placed Mentor in charge of his son Tele…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentor_(Odyssey)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Odyssey is a 2026 epic action fantasy film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who produced it with his wife Emma Thomas. An adaptation of Homer's ancient Greek epic poem the Odyssey, it st…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_(2026_film)
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Claim 20: “'Eclipse de Luna', Luciano Pereyra (2000) A track from the Argentine singer's album 'Recordándote'”
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Claim 21: “In 'The Eclipse' (Augusto Monterroso, 1959)... a Spanish friar lost in the jungle tries to save himself from being sacrificed by a group of Maya by warning them that... he is capable of darkening the Sun.”
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Claim 22: “Virginia Woolf... travelled in 1927 to the north of England to witness the first total eclipse visible in the country in almost 200 years.”
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The search results for 'Virginia' returned information about the US state of Virginia, not the author Virginia Woolf or her travels in 1927.
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web search NEUTRAL — Virginia - Wikipedia. Jump to content. Main menu. move to sidebarhide. Navigation . Main page. Contents. Current events. Random article. About Wikipedia. Contact us. Contribute . Help. Learn to edit. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia
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web search NEUTRAL — The official website of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Learn about Virginia government, contact a state agency, and find the services and resources you need.
https://www.virginia.gov/
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web search NEUTRAL — From the shores of the Atlantic and the Chesapeake Bay to the storied Appalachian Mountains, from rolling hills to historic cities and towns, Virginia has all that you love, all in one trip.
https://www.virginia.org/
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Claim 23: “In 'Ladyhawke' (Richard Donner, 1985)... Only a solar eclipse... allows them to recover their human form at the same time.”
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Claim 24: “A study published in 2008 linked that passage to a real eclipse observed in the Ionian Islands in 1178 BC.”
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While the evidence confirms the existence of the Odyssey and solar eclipses, none of the provided search results mention a 2008 study linking the passage to an eclipse in 1178 BC.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cyme (Greek: Κύμη) or Cumae was an Aeolian city in Aeolis (Asia Minor) close to the kingdom of Lydia. It was called Phriconian, perhaps from the mountain Phricion in Aeolis, near which the Aeolians ha…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The history of Turkey, understood as the history of the area now forming the territory of the Republic of Turkey, includes the history of both Anatolia (the Asian part of Turkey) and Eastern Thrace (t…
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web search NEUTRAL — The darkening of the twilight sky improved the chances of observing the inner zodiacal light.[16]. Bright planets and stars visible during totality.In Spain, the eclipse occurred about 1 hour before s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_12,_20…
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Claim 25: “'Eclipse' (feat. Los Macorinos), Natalia Lafourcade (2018) Included on 'Musas, Vol. 2'”
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Claim 26: “a total solar eclipse, a rare event that has not occurred in the Iberian Peninsula for more than 100 years.”
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Claim 27: “In 'Dolores Claiborne' (Stephen King, 1992)... taking advantage of the real solar eclipse that could be seen in the United States in 1963.”
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The 'Analysis of Stephen King’s Novels' source explicitly states that 'Dolores Claiborne' features the total solar eclipse seen in Maine in 1963.
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web search NEUTRAL — Dolores Claiborne is a 1992 psychological thriller by Stephen King.Dolores Claiborne – The novel's narrator and protagonist, she is a 65-year-old housekeeper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Claiborne
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web search NEUTRAL — A decade later, King would address, and redress, this in his paired novels Gerald’s Game and Dolores Claiborne. Both present a strong but besieged female protagonist, and both feature the total solar …
https://literariness.org/2018/12/31/analysis-of-stephen-king…
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web search NEUTRAL — Review Time: “Dolores Claiborne”. I finished my 63rd Stephen King novel in only three days.Dolores has worked for Vera for a long time, but at the start of the novel, we learn Vera has fallen down the…
https://tonyshorrorcorner.wordpress.com/2018/03/23/review-ti…
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Claim 28: “In 'Venus' (Jaume Balagueró, 2022)... a demonic entity tries to possess the protagonist... during the phenomenon [eclipse].”
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Claim 29: “The 'Song of Roland' (anonymous, 11th century)... describes a sudden darkening of the sky, storms and an earthquake as signs of a possible end of the world.”
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Wikipedia confirms the 'Song of Roland' is an 11th-century poem, but the specific plot detail regarding the darkening sky, storms, and earthquake as end-of-world signs is not corroborated in the provided evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Song of Roland (French: La Chanson de Roland) is an 11th-century chanson de geste based on the deeds of the Frankish military leader Roland at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in AD 778, during the re…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Roland
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Roland (French pronunciation: [ʁɔ.lɑ̃]; Old Frankish: *Hrōþiland; Medieval Latin: Hruodlandus or Rotholandus; Italian: Orlando or Rolando; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Char…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Roland the Farter (known in contemporary records as Roland le Fartere, Roulandus le Fartere, Rollandus le Pettus, or Roland le Petour) was a medieval flatulist who lived in 12th-century England. He wa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_the_Farter
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Claim 30: “'Eclipse Total del Amor', Lissette (1984) A Spanish-language version of 'Total Eclipse of the Heart', recorded by Cuban singer Lissette for her album 'Caricatura'”
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Claim 31: “In 'Darkness' (Jaume Balagueró, 2002)... six children had been sacrificed in a ritual that coincided with a solar eclipse.”
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