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Phosphor in Dreamland
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Phosphor in Dreamland
An ecological parable set on a Caribbean island in the 17th Century. The hero is a clubfooted individual by the name of Phosphor who invents a prototype of the camera to record the island's beauty. The project is financed by an unscrupulous patron who intends to exploit it for very non-ecological purposes. By the author of The Jade Cabinet.
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Wildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornet's dazzling novel, Phosphor in Dreamland, explores the relationship between power and madness, nature and its exploitation, pornography and art, innocence and depravity.
Set on the imaginary Caribbean island of Birdland, the novel takes the form of a series of letters from a current resident to an old friend. These letters describe the island's seventeenth-century history, intertwining the violent Inquisition, the thoughtless extinction of the island's exotic fauna, and the amorous story of the deformed artist-philosopher-inventor Phosphor and his impassioned, obsessional love for the beautiful Extravaganza.
The Jade Cabinet, Ducornet's novel that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was described by one reviewer as "Jane Austen meets Angela Carter via Lewis Carroll." Similarly, Phosphor in Dreamland can be described as Jonathan Swift meets Angela Carter via Jorge Luis Borges. This is Ducornet at her magical best.
Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive)
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Phosphor in Dreamland by Rikki Ducornet is praised for its spellbinding and rigorous imaginative power. The narrative is noted for its enchanting intensity and seriousness, while Ducornet's ability to create an unsettling, dreamlike beauty captivates readers by exposing life's harsh truths with delicate, mesmerizing prose. Her work is celebrated for its ambition and linguistic explosiveness, establishing her as a significant figure in contemporary American fiction.
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ISBN: 9781628974430
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 August 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Illustration: Eight pages of hand drawings
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 139.0mm
Height: 215.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Rikki Ducornet is a transdisciplinary artist. Her work is animated by an interest in nature, Eros, tyranny and the transcendent capacities of the creative imagination. She is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and artist, and her fiction has been translated into fifteen languages. Her art has been exhibited internationally, most recently with Amnesty International's traveling exhibitI Welcome,focused on the refugee crisis. She has received numerous fellowships and awards including an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard College Arts and Letters Award, the Prix Guerlain, a Critics' Choice Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. Her novelThe Jade Cabinetwas a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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