Lucio's Confession - Couverture souple

Sa-Carneiro, Mario De

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1873982801 ISBN 13 : 9781873982808

Editeur : Dedalus Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

Written in 1913 this is a thoroughly decadent story of an unusual menage a trois which ends in a killing. It's filled with poets and artists and those special problems that sensitive people have. The last word on this magnificent period piece - bejewelled and opiated and splendidly over the top - belongs to one of its characters: 'It seems more like the vision of some brilliant onanist than reality'.Phil Baker in The Sunday Times

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Mario de Sa-Carneiro s (1890-1916) work deal obsessively with the problems of identity, madness and solitude. A friend of Pessoa, who was his literary executor, he spent the last years of his life in Paris, where he was only marginally less bored than he was in Lisbon. He committed suicide when he was 26 by taking a large quantity of strychnine and died alone in excruciating pain, the unwitting friend he had invited to keep him company in death having rushed off in search of a doctor. One reason for his suicide was his father's squandering the family fortune and Sa-Carneiro was about to have his allowance stopped and return to provincial Lisbon. His father had taken up with a prostitute whom he had recently married, much to his son's chagrin. Marriage and women come out badly in his writing., where there is a strong repressed gay element.

Revue de presse :

An enigmatic love triangle riddled with madness and jealousy, set in fin de siecle Paris and Lisbon, and its translation reopens a rich vein of fantastic literature. --Christopher Fowler in Time Out

Febrile, intense and innovative. --Nicholas Lezard in The Guardian

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dedalus Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1873982801
• ISBN 13: 9781873982808
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 160