The Course of the Heart
A Weird Fiction, Fantasy, Horror book. there is endless despair at the centre of every narcissistic self-portrait. M. John Harrison, The Course...
John M. Harrison delivers an extraordinary, genre-bending novel that weaves together mythology, sexuality, and the troubled past and present of Eastern Europe. It begins on a hot May night, when three Cambridge students carry out a ritualistic act that changes their lives. Years later, none of the participants can remember what exactly transpired; but their clouded memories can't rid them of an overwhelming sense of dread. Pam Stuyvesant is an epileptic haunted by strange sensual visions. Her husband Lucas believes that a dwarfish creature is stalking him. Self-styled Sorcerer Yaxley becomes...
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- Pages: 224 pages
- ISBN: 9781597800402 / 1597800406
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there is endless despair at the centre of every narcissistic self-portrait. M. John Harrison, The Course of the Heart // Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the Easts exuberant vision of the West, the Wests uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation. M. John Harrison, The Course of the Heart //
An interesting entry into the secret-ritual-in-the-woods-when-we-were-in-college, I found TCotH to be both slightly over- and under- written. Surely the impressionistic style worked toward the horror, but some of the day-to-day scenery and dealings were evasive. I found myself wondering where everyone was. I wanted an explicit investigation... Jodeme, este libro me recuerda a los de Clive Barkeresto a mi parecer no es bueno ni malo necesariamente, sino inesperadoa pesar de hay menos de horror y ms de melanclico. El corazn en esta vida que parpadea: espejo, ancla, luz, asesino. Me gust, pero todava senta que algo faltabahe llegado a la pleroma sin entenderla.Tambin uno de... Dense almost unbearably sad and horrifying work by Harrison, one of his better novels up there with Light and In Viriconium. Gnostic speculation on unraveling lives, a definate Lynchian feel throughout(I don't mean this as a cop out cheap adjective, I think my comparison holds up). Maybe it is a cop out as I can't even begin to explain...
