David Madsen

A baroque restaurant novel which merges cannibalism with Platonism

Included in The Guardians one thousand novels to read before you die.It is a baroque masterpiece.

A Jungian box of tricks where nothing is what it seems. The young hero awakes to find himself on a train with Dr Freud from Vienna and the sadistic train attendant Malkowitz. He allows himself to be led off in a skirt on a visit to a nearby castle, where everyone is looking forward to his lecture the next day on yodelling. While researching yodelling, he encounters Adelma...

"In its unflnching examination of the terrors of the human soul, this homely narrative I begin today may well prove the equal of any I have yet penned."So wrote the dying Edgar Allan Poe in the preface of a tale so macabre, so bizarre and yet so full of the people and events that formed him as to sweep away the boundary between fact an pioction.Told in Poes own literay style, this ficitonal memoir recreates in vivid detail his strange marriage and doomed attempt to make a living, his struggles with alcohol and battle against his sensuial nature. To preserve the innocence of his wife, Poe indulges his passion with a pair of mysterious foretune tellers, accompanied by generous draughts of opium. Poe is slowly drawn into the sordid under-life of old New York, where he is involved in a series of hideous murders.Tracing the real killers through alleys and vack streets, Poe comes face to face with a terror not even he could not have invented.

In 1988, after a brief but devastating war, the United States has occupied the Soviet Union. The Gulags are empty, the KGB has been dissolved. Ex-CIA agent and private investigator DEAN JOPLIN, sardonic, cynical, feels trapped between two worlds. Then he takes on a grisly murder case, which twists through a surreal, chaotic country where American commercialism -- Sleeping Beautys castle is under construction in Red Square -- is replacing communism, and the wounded Russian soul cries out for vengeance. His investigation leads to Siberia, targeted by American nuclear missiles during the final, unhinged spasms of the war. Condemned by the outside world to isolation, the inhabitants are desperate for freedom and Deans murder case holds the key.

"I just killed someone, but Im not a murderer" Vodoun -- to Americans who know it as voodoo, the religion is an exotic superstition; to a Haitian, a way of life, the source of hope, fear and power. But in a shrinking world, the borders between myth and reality can blur, with terrifying consequeces. Ray Falco. Once a prominent, prize-winning D.C. journalist, now hes a burn-out case.. Hes fitfully enjoying semiretirement, until a mysterious force draws him to the scene of a murder that looks ore like the leavings of a Haitian vodoun ritual, more than a drug killing. Against his will, Falco becomes a reporter again, probing the disappearce of Jean-Mars Baptiste a firebrand Haitian politician.. His investigation leads him into the mysterious world of Haitian exile politics, and to the Haitian revolution, the first succesful slave revolt in history. He realizes his fate is tied to Haitis past, and only vodoun can save him.

Nacido en las marginales calles del Tratévere del siglo XVI, elenano Giuseppe Amadonelli, Peppe, nos relata sus memorias de una maneradesenfadada y escatológica. Los maltratos psicológicos, su conocimiento de la fegnostica asi como su venta a un circo de seres deformes con el que recorrera todo elpais seran sus experiencias antes de entrar al servicio del papa Leon X como suchambelan y confidente.A traves de los ojos del enano contrahecho conoceremos la situacion politica y religiosade la Italia del Renacimiento, donde lo grotesco de los personajes que conviven en lavida de Peppe, los momentos personales de Leon X y las conspiraciones papalesllevadas a cabo a su alrededor son narrados de forma grotesca y mordaz pero de unaerudicion poco habitual. Una historia llena de contrastes en la que lo historico se mezclacon lo artistico, lo erotico y pornografico con lo escatologico, y el amor con la intriga.