Subtle Bodies

Peter Dube

ISBN 10: 1590213300 / ISBN 13: 9781590213308

Published by Lethe Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Subtle Bodies
• Publisher: Lethe Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590213300
• ISBN 13: 9781590213308
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 12.7W x 0.64H x 20.32D centimeters 12.7 centimeters width by 0.64 centimeters height by 20.32 centimeters depth
• Weight: 122 grams

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Synopsis

It is Paris, 1935, and the poet Rene Crevel (with whatever accent mark) has turned on the gas stove in his apartment. As death fills the rooms, Crevel dwells on past events that changed his life and ended the peace among the Surrealists. Years earlier, Crevel enacted seances for Andre Breton and his guests. At first, these performances were fraudulent, but soon Crevel found himself overcome with lapses in memory and time. Portents made during the seances came to pass as Breton's friends fell under a morbid influence. While in a trance, Crevel felt his sense of self expand to new levels, subtle bodies of consciousness. Beings he named "Interlocuters" began to whisper to him of other worlds, other times. What at first feels like a revelation soon brings Crevel to the depths of despair. In this fantastical biography of Crevel, accomplished Canadian author Peter Dube, explores the famed poet's desires of flesh and verse and experience.

About the Author

Peter Dube is a novelist, short story writer, essayist and cultural critic. He is the author of the novel Hovering World and At the Bottom of the Sky, a collection of linked short stories. He also edited the anthology Madder Love: Queer Men and The Precincts of Surrealism. Dube is a native Montrealer (the only identity politic from which he seems unable to work free) and despite periodic bouts of obsessive traveling, continues to live and work in the city of his birth.