Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf (Dedalus Hall of Fame): Dedalus Hall of Fame Edition - Softcover

David Madsen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909232750 ISBN 13: 9781909232754

Publisher: Dedalus Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Not your conventional art-historical view of the Renaissance Pope Leo X, usually perceived as supercultivated, if worldly, patron of Raphael and Michelangelo. Here, he's kin to Robert Nye's earthy, lusty personae of Falstaff and Faust, with Rabelasian verve, both scatological and venereal. Strangely shards of gnostic thought emerge from the dwarf's swampish mind. In any case, the narrative of this novel blisters along with a Blackadderish cunning. The Observer

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Review

A pungent historical fiction on a par with Patrick Suskind's Perfume. --The Independent on Sunday Summer Reading Selection

Madsen's tale of how Peppe becomes the Pope's companion and is forced to choose between his master and his beliefs displays both erudition and a real storyteller's gift. --Erica Wagner in The Times

Madsen's book is essentially a romp, although an unusually erudite one, and his scatological and bloody look at the Renaissance is grotesque, fruity and filthy. --Phil Baker in The Sunday Times

About the Author

David Madsen is the pseudonym of a theologian and philosopher. His baroque talent is best seen in his novels; Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf, The Confessions of a Flesh-Eater and A Box of Dreams and the cult cookbook Orlando Crispe's Flesh-Eater's Cookbook. His work has been translated into twelve languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1909232750
• ISBN 13: 9781909232754
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336