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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9781939663146
- Book Title
- Murder Most Serene
- Item Length
- 7in
- Publisher
- Wakefield Press
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Thrillers / General, Crime, Literary, Historical
- Item Width
- 4.4in
- Item Weight
- 5.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 116 Pages
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In the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer mysterious, agonizing deaths. Murder Most Serene offers a cruel portrait of a beautiful but corrupt city-state and its equally extravagant and corrupt inhabitants. Redolent of darkness, death, poison and transgression, it is also an over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek Venetian romp. Rich in historical detail and bursting with bejeweled putrescence, Gabrielle Wittkop's chilling memento mori eschews the murder mystery in which it is garbed for a scintillating depiction of physical, moral, societal and institutional corruption, in which the author plays the role of puppeteer--"present, masked as convention dictates, while in a Venice on the brink of downfall, women gorged with venom burst like wineskins." Self-styled heir to the Marquis de Sade, Gabrielle Wittkop (1920-2002) was a French author who wrote a remarkable series of novels and travelogues, all laced with sardonic humor and dark sexuality, with recurrent themes of death, disease and decrepitude. After meeting Justus Wittkop, a German deserter, in Paris under the Occupation, she hid him from the Nazis and then married him after the war, in what she described as an "intellectual alliance," given he was homosexual. He would commit suicide in 1986, with her approval, after being diagnosed with Parkinson's. Her first novel, The Necrophiliac , appeared in 1972, but a number of her books have only been made available since her own suicide in 2002, after she was diagnosed with lung cancer.
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Publisher
Wakefield Press
ISBN-10
1939663148
ISBN-13
9781939663146
eBay Product ID (ePID)
212690792
Product Key Features
Book Title
Murder Most Serene
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / General, Crime, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
116 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
4.4in
Item Weight
5.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq2683.I82s4713 2015
Reviews
Transgressive writers tend to dwell on the connections between sex and death, beauty and decay, eroticism and horror. Wittkop is no exception. Her prose is stylized and exquisite no matter what she's describing., Readers would be well advised to don a Hazmat suit before wading into the thrilling, pestilential world of French writer Gabrielle Wittkop... The entire novella revolves around... lurid, impressionistic snapshots of a gossipy, shadowy world... [with] lavish attention paid to the aesthetics of how certain poisons, "painterly magicians," act on the human visage., By far the most radical of Wittkop's works thus far available in English, a fascinating.....exploration of Calvinistic world-weariness.
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2018-295639
Dewey Decimal
843/.914
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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