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Conceptualisms
The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid Writing As Contemporary Art
Av Joe Amato, David Antin m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
507 kr
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A wide-ranging anthology of experimental writing—prose, poetry, and hybrid—from its most significant practitioners and innovators A variety of names have been used to describe fiction, poetry, and hybrid writing that explore new forms and challenges mainstream traditions. Those phrases include …
Jade Cabinet
Häftad, 2024
187 kr
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Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her story, that of a childhood enlivened by Lewis Carroll and an orangutan named Dr. Johnson and envenomed by the pernicious courtship of Radulph Tubbs, Queen Victoria's …
Plotinus
Häftad, 2023
158 kr
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Incarcerated for his subversive connection to the old, living world, a prisoner makes the most of his isolation in this captivating allegorical tale about tyranny, conviction, and the enduring power of imagination.Upon setting out for a morning walk with his knobby stick in hand, a young man is …
Fosfor i drömlandet
Häftad, 2010
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
154 kr
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På den lilla karibiska ön Fågellandet bor den utfattige poeten och uppfinnaren Fosfor. Han är klumpfotad och vindögd och hopplöst olyckligt förälskad, men har lyckats uppfinna en primitiv kamera som tar tredimensionella bilder ? trots att det är 1600-tal. Snart vandrar han omkring på ön som en del …
Fan-Maker's Inquisition
E-bok, 2015
107 kr
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"A fan is like the thighs of a woman: it opens and closes." And so begins this lush, historical novel--a mixture of imagination and conceit, passion and suspense. In a tense courtroom during the French Revolution, a young fan-maker, renowned all over Paris for her sensual and graphic objets d''art, …
Fountains of Neptune
E-bok, 1993
187 kr
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"My sleep began in the spring of 1914. I slept through both World Wars and the tainted calm between. It was as if I had been cursed by an evil fairy, pricked by an enchanted spinning wheel; an impenetrable briar had gripped my mind." Thus begins Rikki Ducornet''s brilliant lyric novel about Nicolas …
Deep Zoo
Häftad, 2015
266 kr
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Rikki Ducornet’s essays explore eros, violence, dreams, fairy tales, and art as alchemy—the Deep Zoo at the core of humanity.Within the writer’s life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cortázar a pair of amorous lions, and for an early Egyptian scribe …
Entering Fire
Häftad, 1988
190 kr
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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 …
Fläcken
Häftad, 2007
154 kr
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Fläcken är den vilt vindlande berättelsen om den unga flickan Charlotte, som föds med ett stort födelsemärke i form av en hare på kinden. Hennes strängt kristna faster ser det som ett Satans märke och Charlotte växer upp i det religiösa förtryckets skugga. Men i den lilla byn där hon bor finns även …
Gazelle
E-bok, 2007
137 kr
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As mesmerizing as a tale from the lips of Sheherazade, Gazelle traces the story of Elizabeth, a thirteen-year-old American girl whose adolescent passion is awakened in the exotic climate of 1950s Cairo. While her mother–whose beauty and sexual prowess both frighten and fascinate Elizabeth–moves …
Monstrous and the Marvelous
Häftad, 1999
204 kr
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With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and the marvelous - as transmuted in the alembic …
Monstrous and the Marvelous
E-bok, 2021
289 kr
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With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and the marvelous—as transmuted in the alembic of …
Entering Fire
E-bok, 2021
259 kr
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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 …
Word "e;Desire"e;
E-bok, 2005
183 kr
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A madman recalls his first erotic encounter, a priest loses sleep over a heretic, a scholar searches for the anomaly that inspired the Hindu divinities, a spinster hallucinates her own seductions, a pope suckles a wet nurse. Erotic and fiercely funny, these stories range across many centuries and …
Trafik
E-bok, 2021
238 kr
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From the singularly inventive mind of Rikki Ducornet, Trafik is a buoyant voyage through outer space and inner longing, transposing human experiences of passion, loss, and identity into a post-Earth universe. Quiver, a mostly-human astronaut, takes refuge from the monotony of harvesting minerals on …
Plotinus
E-bok, 2023
207 kr
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Incarcerated for his subversive connection to the old, living world, a prisoner makes the most of his isolation in this captivating allegorical tale about tyranny, conviction, and the enduring power of imagination. Upon setting out for a morning walk with his knobby stick in hand, a young man is …
Phosphor in Dreamland
Häftad, 2023
194 kr
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Wildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornet’s dazzling novel, Phosphor in Dreamland, explores the relationship between power and madness, nature and its exploitation, pornography and art, innocence and depravity. Set on the imaginary Caribbean island of Birdland, the novel takes the form of …
Phosphor in Dreamland
E-bok, 2023
129 kr
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Wildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornet’s dazzling novel, Phosphor in Dreamland , explores the relationship between power and madness, nature and its exploitation, pornography and art, innocence and depravity. Set on the imaginary Caribbean island of Birdland, the novel takes the form of …
Jade Cabinet
E-bok, 2024
205 kr
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Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her story, that of a childhood enlivened by Lewis Carroll and an orangutan named Dr. Johnson and envenomed by the pernicious courtship of Radulph Tubbs, Queen Victoria''s …
Cult of Seizure
Häftad, 2012
194 kr
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The Cult of Seizure is a work of lyrical mesmerism and animal magnetism from acclaimed novelist and artist Rikki Ducornet, which displays a lush poesis and visionary soul. Jane Urquhart describes it as a "combination of the bestial and the bestiary; of terror and of tenderness." Although an earlier …
Complete Butcher's Tales
Av Rikki Ducornet, Ducomet Rikki
Häftad, 1999
142 kr
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In the fantastic tradition of Borges, Bruno Schulz, Angela Carter, and H. P. Lovecraft, here are nearly sixty unforgettable stories that ignore the confines of space and time to offer, among other times and places: a cabinet of curiosities in contemporary Cairo, an alvhemical ceiling in …
Word "Desire"
Häftad, 2005
154 kr
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These twelve startlingly original stories about erotic desire are the best opportunity yet for adventurous renders to discover and explore the fiction of Rikki Ducornet, who over the past three decades has created a body of work that is as daring and finely wrought as any writer's. Each of these …
Trafik
Häftad, 2021
177 kr
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From the singularly inventive mind of Rikki Ducornet, Trafik is a buoyant voyage through outer space and inner longing, transposing human experiences of passion, loss, and identity into a post-Earth universe.Quiver, a mostly-human astronaut, takes refuge from the monotony of harvesting minerals on …
Phosphor in Dreamland
Häftad, 1995
159 kr
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Wildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornet’s dazzling novel, Phosphor in Dreamland, explores the relationship between power and madness, nature and its exploitation, pornography and art, innocence and depravity.Set on the imaginary Caribbean island of Birdland, the novel takes the form of a …
Stain
Häftad, 1995
143 kr
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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 …
Fountains of Neptune
Häftad, 2015
181 kr
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"My sleep began in the spring of 1914. I slept through both World Wars and the tainted calm between. It was as if I had been cursed by an evil fairy, pricked by an enchanted spinning wheel; an impenetrable briar had gripped my mind."Thus begins Rikki Ducornet's brilliant lyric novel about Nicolas …
One Marvelous Thing
Häftad, 2008
142 kr
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Winner of a 2007 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Rikki Ducornet is beloved as a novelist and essayist, but is known perhaps most of all for her work as a writer of short stories. In the tradition of Italo Calvino, Donald Barthelme, and Angela Carter, Ducornet creates modern-day fables filled …
