BETRAYALS - Charles Palliser
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- Hardcover
- 9780224029193
- 01 januari 1994
- 308 pagina's
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Charles Pallister's hilarious and original new novel consists of ten chapters which gradually come together to tell a story - or, more accurately, different versions of the same story. And the tale that emerges involves envy, plagiarism, blackmail and revenge - leading sometimes to murder.
It begins with an obituary that betrays more than just its author's hostility towards the deceased. There follows an account of a famous incident in the Scottish Highlands which might or might not have involved murder. Then comes a publisher's report on a promising nursing romance which is married by its author's obsession with a celebrated historical serial killer. There is an account of a recent academic scandal in which an internationally famous psychoanalyst is implicated, and there are tow tales of judicial murder, in Moorish Spain and in modern Britain. In the seventh chapter everything comes together: the academic scandal is seen from a new perspective, the obsession displayed in the nursing romance is - possibly! - explained, and an imaginative solution to the highlands mystery is put forward.
By the end, the underlying master-narrative has become apparent: a scientist, an academic, or a novelist envies the success of a rival and plots an ingenious revenge. But, like the ubiquitous scorpion that occurs throughout the book and which proverbially stings itself to death, the plotter frequently brings about his own destruction. And so plotter and victim constantly change places in an elaborate game of revenge in which the motives of the one and the interest of the other are again and again betrayed by slips of the tongue, misunderstandings and ludicrous blunders.
Each of the texts belongs to a different genre - soap-opera, post-structuralist essay, whodunnit, police drama - or is a brilliant pastiche of a writer, from Kipling and Conrad to bestselling novelists of our own day. Together they comprise that is at once challenging and marvelously inventive.
It begins with an obituary that betrays more than just its author's hostility towards the deceased. There follows an account of a famous incident in the Scottish Highlands which might or might not have involved murder. Then comes a publisher's report on a promising nursing romance which is married by its author's obsession with a celebrated historical serial killer. There is an account of a recent academic scandal in which an internationally famous psychoanalyst is implicated, and there are tow tales of judicial murder, in Moorish Spain and in modern Britain. In the seventh chapter everything comes together: the academic scandal is seen from a new perspective, the obsession displayed in the nursing romance is - possibly! - explained, and an imaginative solution to the highlands mystery is put forward.
By the end, the underlying master-narrative has become apparent: a scientist, an academic, or a novelist envies the success of a rival and plots an ingenious revenge. But, like the ubiquitous scorpion that occurs throughout the book and which proverbially stings itself to death, the plotter frequently brings about his own destruction. And so plotter and victim constantly change places in an elaborate game of revenge in which the motives of the one and the interest of the other are again and again betrayed by slips of the tongue, misunderstandings and ludicrous blunders.
Each of the texts belongs to a different genre - soap-opera, post-structuralist essay, whodunnit, police drama - or is a brilliant pastiche of a writer, from Kipling and Conrad to bestselling novelists of our own day. Together they comprise that is at once challenging and marvelously inventive.
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- Hardcover
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- 01 januari 1994
- Aantal pagina's
- 308
- Illustraties
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- Hoofdauteur
- Charles Palliser
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- First published 1994 Jonathan Cape Random House London
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- 16 cm
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- 16 cm
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- 24.5 cm
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- 25 cm
- Verpakking hoogte
- 3 cm
- Verpakking lengte
- 3 cm
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