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The Grotesque
 
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The Grotesque (Paperback)

de Patrick McGrath (Author)
4.0étoiles sur 5  Voir tous les commentaires (10 évaluations de client)
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Witty, weird and highly enjoyable, this gothic British tale is aptly titled. The set-up is macabre: a distinguished paleontologist is brain-damaged and slowly turning into a vegetable. He cannot speak, but narrates an interior monologue of all he sees and hears: a lot of sexual shenanigans and a particularly grisly murder, all centered around "Fledge," the butler, who has ambitions. The stylistic joke is that all these horrors take place in a quaint, genteel English country setting, where the village is "Pock-on-the-Fling," the pub, "The Hodge and Purlet" and the barrister, "Sir Fleckley Tome." However deadly the deed, the language is always decorous and impeccably mannered. The result is strangely hilarious--as if a Stephen King story were being told in the manner of a latter-day Anthony Trollope.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.


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This exuberantly spooky novel, in which horror, repressed eroticism, and sulfurous social comedy intertwine like the vines in an overgrown English garden, is now a major motion picture, starring Alan Bates, Sting, and Theresa Russell.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 A very solid work by a very solid author!!, Juil 22 2002
Par J. Resnick (San Francisco, CA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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I've now read Asylum, Spider, Dr. Haggards Disease and The Grotesque and I would definitely put this one in at #3, behind Asylum and Spider.
This story got me thinking about how awful life would be if you were a vegetable and noone knew you were able to understand everything around you. McGrath's narrators are always "one sandwich short of a pincic" and you have to think about what's really happening/happened vs. what the narrator said happened. I enjoyed the story quite a bit, and still have many unanswered questions!
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4.0étoiles sur 5 The Butler Did It---Or Did He?, Mai 5 2001
Par Ms. Nancy F. Jones (Milwaukee, WI USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This is McGrath's first book, and it's a good one. A goof on the familiar Gothic novel, it tells the story of the hostile take-over of a creepy old estate by the owner's butler. However, since the narrator is in a state of complete paralysis, and quite possibly insane, his story is suspect. Is the butler really doing the nasty with Sir Hugo's wife? Who murdered the insipid fiance of Sir Hugo's daughter and fed him to the estate's pigs? What REALLY happened in Sir Hugo's barn workshop the day he became paralyzed?

A black comedy of murder and manners, THE GROTESQUE provides us with the requsite gloomy mansion, a dismal swamp, a suspicious servant, bad plumbing, and a possible inspiration for Thomas Harris's HANNIBAL. I recommend it.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 A dark, laugh-out-loud, horror novel, Fév 19 2001
Par Rob Damm (Brick, NJ USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
I was pretty impressed with this book, as it is from early on in the writer's career. McGrath has gone on to become probably the greatest gothicist of his generation (admittedly, a title which is *not* oft contested), but, in my opinion, there are wickedly funny elements in this book that I find lacking in his later, "greater" works. I was surprised that such a diabolical sense of humor lurked within the author of utterly disturbing books such as "Spider" and "Asylum". The cataleptic narrator's (Sir Hugo) observation are always at least worthy of a smirk, sometimes a snort, often an out-loud laugh. Like all of McGrath's works, it will occupy your mind long after you've finished it... trying to fingure out exactly what's going on. I suppose it is not as expertly crafted as his later books, but it is certainly a good start to a stellar career. Also, a good intro to McGrath, as it's not quite as harrowing as his later work.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 an early McGrath work lacking intensity
McGrath's popular works (Spider, Asylum, Dr. Haggard's Disease) are known for being compact, psychological dramas with a paranormal twist. Read more
Publié le Mai 15 2000 par lazza

4.0étoiles sur 5 Bodies in the swamp,creepy Butlers,and bad plumbing.
This is a prime example of an Author having fun. McGrath has taken every Gothic cliche and turned them upside down. Read more
Publié le Mars 22 2000 par rodney23

5.0étoiles sur 5 Did the butler really do it?
Having picked up this book rather randomly, I was pleasantly surprised to find a well written modern gothic tale. Read more
Publié le Déc 22 1999

5.0étoiles sur 5 Another Great One from McGrath
I LOVED this book. McGrath is the modern master of neo-gothic stories. It's all here: the spooky old house, the bad weather, the seriously disturbed people. Read more
Publié le Avril 1 1999

4.0étoiles sur 5 It made me fear paralysis and devious Butlers
An exciting tale of murder betrayal and the shift of power within a manor. After the owner of the estate Hugo Cole is paralysized by a stroke he is forced to watch as his butler... Read more
Publié le Mars 3 1999 par ted guastello

3.0étoiles sur 5 A perfectly adequate little read
_The Grotesque_ is a fine book with good characterisation, and of course, well written. I found it very short--it can be completed within an hour or so. Read more
Publié le Aoû 30 1998

4.0étoiles sur 5 A short and satisfying Gothic novel - recommended.
All the features of a classic Gothic novel are here - the old mansion, the possibility of a crime, the questionable emotional and psychological stability of the characters. Read more
Publié le Fév 24 1997

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