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Monsieur de Phocas
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'With Ethel's friends, grotesque, ageing decadents, Phocas for the first time tastes opium. He experiences the pleasure of absolute degradation, and the double pleasure of being both observer and observed, dominant subject and passive object. As the opium takes effect, the naked Javanese dancers at the orgy vanish in a swirling cloud, to be replaced by a dark lamplit street where two thieves carefully saw at a woman's throat with a delicate knifeblade. From this cruel vision, Phocas soars into dizzy flight from which, suddenly, he plunges to destruction, into oozing depths where clinging vampires suck his blood, until he almost swoons into spasms. The mysterious, vicious double is on the threshold of existence: Phocas sees himself as Giles de Retz in the forest of Tiffauges, haunted by obscene desires.'
Jennifer Birkett in Sins of the Fathers
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2021-03-31
Publication Date:
2021-03-31
Publisher:
Dedalus
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1912868091
ISBN13:
9781912868094
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Weight:
244 g
Height:
125 cm
Width:
196 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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