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A wildly audacious but withal cleverly calculated, mishmash of history, myth, sex, psychology and humor that may put readers in mind of Thomas Pynchon, this massive tale recreates the Hitlerian nighmare in terms of Wagnerian dream, as given shape and substance in The Ring, Parsifal, etc. The principals in Gurr's dark Gothic forest-cum-stage set are the Ring Master, Adolf Hitler, hungry for world dominance; his true love, Edwina Casson-Perceval, Bayreuth's most dazzling opera star; and her brother Edwin, who as well as fathering his sister's child is a blackmailed double agent. Lesser characters include such Nibelungs as Himmler, Goering, Bormann, Goebbels and the terrifying Heydrichnot to mention psychologist Carl Jung. The whole performance is arranged in musical movements and appropriately is shot with songs and scenelets. It's original, entertaining, brilliantly inventiveand as a kind of dramatized investigation of the sinister psyche of Nazism, it makes a good deal of sense. Gurr wrote Troika and A Woman Called Scylla.
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From Library Journal
Here we have a wealthy young Englishwoman, Mrs. Casson-Perceval, on the Continent with her two children, Edwina (who grows up to become an opera singer) and Edwin (who becomes our novel's narrator); the ghost of Richard Wagner; Wagner's widow Cosima; Adolf Hitler; Heinrich Himmler; Eva Braun; David Lloyd George; Sigmund Freud and a chummy Carl Jung; astrology, numerology, Nazism, and Fascism; sado-masochism, incest, fellatio, and cunnilingus; urophilia and coprophiliaall recounted in an appropriately coarse and choppy prose set to the leitmotif of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen . The result is this dizzying, seemingly endless, violent Gotterdammerung of a novel, not recommended for delicate sensibilities or general fiction collections. Marcia G. Fuchs, Guilford Free Lib., Ct.
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- PublisherPan Macmillan
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0330296884
- ISBN 13 9780330296885
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages752
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