Gothic Soul, A
by: Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic
Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press ()
$21.50
Staff Pick by comrade: rats alice
Haunting and hypnotic. More a description of feeling than a story, but told with simple and evocative images. Newly translated but written in 1900, I couldn't imagine a world without this book. The narrator is a person alone, caught between a romanticized but decaying medieval city and the modern world that is paving it over. He is trapped between the weight of family history and religious structure, and the knowledge that his sexuality and neurosis will leave him as the last one alive. Romantic, apocalyptic, and nervous. This book is so beautiful to me.