Cretan Teat
Aldiss, Brian W
The Cretan Teat is a wry
and comic novel that interweaves its own fiction with an inner fiction
about the discovery of a Byzantine painting of the Mother of the Blessed
Virgin Mary suckling the infant Jesus and a fake ikon that becomes an
instrument of Nemesis. Told in the first person, from the perspective of
a randy but unfortunate author who becomes a character in his own
novel, this clever novel, which smacks of both Pirandello and
post-modernism, walks a tightrope between hilarity and tragedy as it
delivers on familiar Aldiss themes, as muff-diving and nose-diving to
disaster alternate to powerful effect.
and comic novel that interweaves its own fiction with an inner fiction
about the discovery of a Byzantine painting of the Mother of the Blessed
Virgin Mary suckling the infant Jesus and a fake ikon that becomes an
instrument of Nemesis. Told in the first person, from the perspective of
a randy but unfortunate author who becomes a character in his own
novel, this clever novel, which smacks of both Pirandello and
post-modernism, walks a tightrope between hilarity and tragedy as it
delivers on familiar Aldiss themes, as muff-diving and nose-diving to
disaster alternate to powerful effect.
Կատեգորիաներ:
Տարի:
2014
Հրատարակում:
ebook
Հրատարակչություն:
The Friday Project
Լեզու:
english
Էջեր:
400
ISBN 10:
0007482221
ISBN 13:
9780007482221
Ֆայլ:
EPUB, 477 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2014