Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf (Paperback)
 
作者: David Madsen 
書城編號: 1200408

原價: HK$160.00
現售: HK$152 節省: HK$8

購買此書 10本或以上 9折, 60本或以上 8折

購買後立即進貨, 約需 18-25 天

 
 
出版社: DEDALUS LIMITED
出版日期: 2014/03/31
尺寸: 197x126x24mm
重量: 0.32 kg
ISBN: 9781909232754

商品簡介
"Not your conventional art-historical view of the Renaissance Pope Leo X, usually perceived as supercultivated, if worldly, patron of Raphael and Michelangelo. Here, he's kin to Robert Nye's earthy, lusty personae of Falstaff and Faust, with Rabelasian verve, both scatological and venereal. Strangely shards of gnostic thought emerge from the dwarf's swampish mind. In any case, the narrative of this novel blisters along with a Blackadderish cunning." The Observer

*First published in 1995, this one immediately caught readers' imaginations and has since become something of a contemporary classic. It has a cute frame opening (' It is not necessary for me to relate precisely how these memoirs fell into my hands...' ) and an ugly, if memorable opening proper, reminiscent of the start of Earthly Powers: ' This morning his Holiness summoned me to read from St Augustine, while the physician applied unguents and salves to his suppurating arse...' The rest is freakish couplings, religious sects, torture: a cracking read for all ages, then." Giles Foden in The Guardian

"Some books make their way by stealth; a buzz develops, a cult is formed. Take Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf, published by Dedalus in 1995. The opening paragraphs paint an unforgettable picture of poor portly Leo having unguents applied to his suppurating anus after one too many buggerings from his catamite. Then comes the killer pay off line: " Leo is Pope, after all." You can't not read on after that." I took it on holiday and was transported to the Vatican of the Renaissance; Peppe, the heretical dwarf of the title, became more real than the amiable pair of windsurfers I'd taken with me."
Suzi Feay in The New Statesman

"Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf was overwhelmingly the most popular choice of Gay Times reviewers in last year's Books of the Year. Reprinted now this outrageous tale of the Renaissance papacy, heretics, circus freaks and sex should be at the top of everyone's 'must read' list."
Jonathan Hales in Gay Times
David Madsen 作者作品表

Under a Secret Sky (Paperback)

U.S.S.A. (Paperback)

Commercial Building Construction: Materials and Methods (Paperback)

Bundle: Engineering Drawing and Design, 6th + Mindtap Drafting, 4 Terms (24 Months) Printed Access Card (0006) (Hardcover)

Bundle: Engineering Drawing and Design, 6th + Mindtap Drafting, 2 Terms (12 Months) Printed Access Card (0006) (Hardcover)

Bundle: Engineering Drawing and Design, 6th + Fundamentals of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing, 3rd + Workbook for Madsen/Madsen's for Madsen's

Architectural Drafting and Design (7 ed) (Hardcover)

Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf (Paperback)

eBook: Confessions of a Flesh-Eater (DRM EPUB)

Print Reading For Architecture And Construction (Paperback)

Print Reading for Engineering and Manufacturing Technology (Paperback)

eBook: Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf (DRM EPUB)

Engineering Drawing and Design (Paperback)

eBook: Box of Dreams (DRM EPUB)

Workbook for Madsen/Madsen's for Madsen's Engineering Drawing and Design, 5th (5 ed) (Paperback)

Intermountain Archaeology (Paperback)

eBook: U.S.S.A. (DRM EPUB)

eBook: Black Plume (DRM EPUB)

eBook: Vodoun (DRM EPUB)

* 以上資料僅供參考之用, 香港書城並不保證以上資料的準確性及完整性。
* 如送貨地址在香港以外, 當書籍/產品入口時, 顧客須自行繳付入口關稅和其他入口銷售稅項。

 

 

 

  我的賬戶 |  購物車 |  出版社 |  團購優惠
加入供應商 |  廣告刊登 |  公司簡介 |  條款及細則
 
  香港書城 版權所有 私隱政策聲明
 
  顯示模式: 電腦版 (改為: 手機版)