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Tetralogie van de Elementen

Deze serie duikt in de duistere en bizarre hoeken van de menselijke psyche, waarbij de grenzen tussen realiteit en fantasie vervagen. De verhalen verkennen thema's als perversie, macht en het verlies van onschuld, vaak met surrealistische en onheilspellende beelden. Het is een oeuvre dat conventioneel vertellen uitdaagt en een diepgaande, vaak verontrustende impact achterlaat bij de lezer. Lezers die op zoek zijn naar gedurfde, grensverleggende literatuur zullen hier veel vinden.

Stain
Entering Fire

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    Stain

    • 223bladzijden
    • 8 uur lezen
    4,0(261)Tarief

    In "The Stain" Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. "Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monkish rapists, and Satan" (Kirkus), as well as the village exorcist, inhabit this bawdy tale of perversion, power, possession, and the rape of innocence. Ducornet weaves an intricate design of fantasy and reality, at once surreal, hilarious, and terrifying.

    Stain
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    Entering Fire

    • 168bladzijden
    • 6 uur lezen
    4,2(103)Tarief

    This startling and brilliantly comic novel tells the stories of two men: a father and his estranged son. Lamprias de Bergerac is a gentle mystic and amateur botanist who spends his middle-aged years in an erotic utopia deep in the Amazonian jungle, collecting specimens of rare orchids and ultimately finding Cucla, the young and free-spirited native woman who has become the love of his life. Meanwhile, his demented son Septimus is raised by his mother in prewar Europe, seething with hatred of the father who abandoned him. He rises to power in Nazi-occupied France, where he goes mad in an obsessive pursuit of racial purity. Rikki Ducornet has a gift for combining the horrific with the hilarious, the realistic with the fantastic. Through a wildly inventive narrative, Entering Fire scrutinizes the sources of fascist mentality in nations and, potentially, in all humans.

    Entering Fire