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Graves - Quentin S. Crisp
Graves
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In Graves, Damien, a male nurse and self-styled ‘thanatophile’, is in love with death in its purer and more ideal form. However, as he casts around for some authentic way to defy the void of modernity, his thanatophilia is swiftly and insidiously corrupted. Scavenging what ‘materials’ he can, he... show more
In Graves, Damien, a male nurse and self-styled ‘thanatophile’, is in love with death in its purer and more ideal form. However, as he casts around for some authentic way to defy the void of modernity, his thanatophilia is swiftly and insidiously corrupted. Scavenging what ‘materials’ he can, he works in isolation like a reverse Doctor Frankenstein, wishing to understand the secrets of death, not life, in order to break the narrative power of science over the modern mind.

Set against the backdrop of anomie-drenched 21st-century London, Graves, Quentin S. Crisp’s second major novel, is a work of Gothic horror that confronts the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness in a world where it is easier to believe in artificial intelligence than human intelligence.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781943813926
Publisher: Snuggly Books
Pages no: 286
Edition language: English
Category:
Horror
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5.0 Graves
This book shook me to my core, and has definitely become one of my favorites. It's brimming with intelligent writing and perfectly Gothic flowery language. Crisp's imagery is deeply affecting, with artful descriptions of decay. There is one passage where he describes the putrefaction of a corpse, an...
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