The Demon Tracts - Couverture souple

Kristj?N Norge

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1916938183 ISBN 13 : 9781916938182

Editeur : Broken Sleep Books, 2024

Synopsis

The Demon Tracts is a faithful reproduction of the loggbok of Norwegian-Shetlandic modernist poet, Kristján Norge who vanished from the Outer Hebridean Eilean a' Bháis (Isle of the Dead) in 1961. Part diary, part collage, its collaged contents betray a figure profoundly disturbed by the vicissitudes of island life. The loggbok entries are aligned with the lunar cycles of the new moon and full moon of 1961, beginning on July 11th (which opens this 'dorchar taibhse' or 'dark vision') and ending with the full moon on the 22nd of December. The loggbok concludes with a long, unedited poem: The Demon's Progress, which is surely a nod to The Rake's Progress and antithetical to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Crudely attached inserts include: a black and white plate of the Palatine Graffito depicting Christ as a crucified donkey; a fortune-telling card illustrated with a man wrestling a lion from the Grand jeu de Mlle Lenormand deck, Grimaud, France; a reconstructed cella using an Egyptian postcard of the Temple of Edfu; numerous typescripts and a 1950s image of wolves in a wood, possibly at Whipsnade zoo. Norge's handwritten scrawl is meticulously transcribed to reveal an arcane theatre of paranoia and self-betrayal akin to Nijinsky and Strindberg's own diaristic breakdowns. The Demon Tracts manifests out of Ravage: An Astonishment of Fire as microcosmic evidence of charred thinking and reduced selfhood via the invented ventriloquism of the 'Sluagh nam Marbh', a malign Highland tempest wind that seemingly drew Norge toward his death.

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À propos des auteurs

Kristján Norge was born on Shetland in 1930. Something of an itinerant, he settled in Edinburgh before visiting Eilean a' Bhàis in 1961 to continue his research into cartographic mnemonics. Three manuscripts have been recently uncovered: Optik: A History of Ghost (1950), Ravage (1961) and Until the Twilight Fails, an unpublished ms (unknown date), comprising a sìthean account which Norge apparently composed after his disappearance from Eilean a' Bhàis, maintaining he had not died, but disappeared into a fairy mound.

MacGillivray is the Highland name of writer and artist Kirsten Norrie. Brought up internationally and living for a significant period of time in both England and Northern Ireland, Norrie returned to Scotland after studying at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford where she received a doctorate in Performance and Scottish Identity; her thesis was entitled Cloth, Cull and Cocktail: Anatomising the Performer Body of 'Scotland'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Broken Sleep Books
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1916938183
• ISBN 13: 9781916938182
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 76
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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