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essentialsaltes) wrote2023-06-05 01:40 pm
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Inner Europe by John Howard and Mark Valentine
A curious volume from Tartarus Press
Supernatural-tinged stories of vanished or never-was Europe. Really nails the fin de siecle or post-Great War feel with prose poem dreaminess. But they may take the nihilistic pose a shade too far in that many of the stories ultimately seem to be more nothing than something. I think my faves were The Fencing Mask and Lost Gonfalon.
Supernatural-tinged stories of vanished or never-was Europe. Really nails the fin de siecle or post-Great War feel with prose poem dreaminess. But they may take the nihilistic pose a shade too far in that many of the stories ultimately seem to be more nothing than something. I think my faves were The Fencing Mask and Lost Gonfalon.