Portrait of an Englishman in His Chateau |
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| Author:
| Pieyre de Mandiargue, Andre |
| Translator:
| Fletcher, J. |
| Series title: | Dedalus Europe 1998 Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-873982-93-8 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1998 |
| Publisher: | Dedalus Books Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $21.95 |
Book Description:
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When the unnamed narrator crosses the causeway to the Chateau of Gamehuche, he enters a surrealist nightmare of debauchery and violence. The proceedings at the chateau are presided over by the master of Gamehuche, M. de Montcul, formerly the English diplomat, Sir Horatio Mountarse. With a cast of willing and not-so-willing acolytes, he serves up an over-refined cuisine of obscenity, sexual perversion and unspeakable cruelty. The book could be described as a dispatch written from the...
More DescriptionWhen the unnamed narrator crosses the causeway to the Chateau of Gamehuche, he enters a surrealist nightmare of debauchery and violence. The proceedings at the chateau are presided over by the master of Gamehuche, M. de Montcul, formerly the English diplomat, Sir Horatio Mountarse. With a cast of willing and not-so-willing acolytes, he serves up an over-refined cuisine of obscenity, sexual perversion and unspeakable cruelty. The book could be described as a dispatch written from the frontiers of depravity.