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The author describes events in his life in terms of his seven tattoos, exploring themes of sacrilege, death, primitivism, sadomasochism, and downfall
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Peter Trachtenberg has won the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction and is the author of The Casanova Complex. He lives in New York City, where he is currently at work on a novel.
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enberg's Seven Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh is much more than the memories of an eloquent writer. It's wild anthropology, eclectic theology, literary observation, and a treatise on the uses of body modification and tattooing. Even Trachtenberg's most harrowing and absurd experiences become universal through his illuminating prose.
As a Jew drawn to the ritual of Catholicism, plagued by its guilt and craving its absolution, he gets a tattoo of the wound of Christ. An unfilial son and regretful lover, he marks himself with the Archangel Michael, who drove Adam and Eve from Paradise. "Most tattoos are signifiers of the past, commemorating events that have already transpired. That's how I see most of mine," Trachtenberg explains. "But tattoos may also act upon the future, protect the body from impending danger or consecrate it for some arduous task ahead."
Each chapter in Seven Tattoos explores the theme evoked by the co
As a Jew drawn to the ritual of Catholicism, plagued by its guilt and craving its absolution, he gets a tattoo of the wound of Christ. An unfilial son and regretful lover, he marks himself with the Archangel Michael, who drove Adam and Eve from Paradise. "Most tattoos are signifiers of the past, commemorating events that have already transpired. That's how I see most of mine," Trachtenberg explains. "But tattoos may also act upon the future, protect the body from impending danger or consecrate it for some arduous task ahead."
Each chapter in Seven Tattoos explores the theme evoked by the co
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- PublisherCrown Pub
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0517701723
- ISBN 13 9780517701720
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages263
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