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The Uncanny Gastronomic: Strange Tales of the Edible Weird
The Uncanny Gastronomic: Strange Tales of the Edible Weird
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A new collection of classic tales, poems, and essays explores the tradition of writers playing with food and the uncanny, featuring works by Shirley Jackson, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter, and Roald Dahl.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 27 July 2023
Publisher: British Library Publishing
“All I can tell you is that I think it was pigs meat.”“You mean youre not sure?”“One can never be sure.”A brush with the mushroom devil whets the appetite. The meat at the werewolfs table is a dish to relish. Dessert with Londons cannibal club may be the cherry on top.From fairy tales and folklore focused on magical foods and strange eating came an enduring tradition of writers playing with food and the uncanny. In the fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries this tradition thrived,with themes of supernatural consumption,weird transformation and sensual euphoria as key ingredients.Raiding this dark pantry of writing,this new collection presents a feast of sixteen classic tales,two poems and one essay,with choice morsels by masters of the macabre including Shirley Jackson,Franz Kafka,Angela Carter and Roald Dahl.
“All I can tell you is that I think it was pigs meat.”“You mean youre not sure?”“One can never be sure.”A brush with the mushroom devil whets the appetite. The meat at the werewolfs table is a dish to relish. Dessert with Londons cannibal club may be the cherry on top.From fairy tales and folklore focused on magical foods and strange eating came an enduring tradition of writers playing with food and the uncanny. In the fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries this tradition thrived,with themes of supernatural consumption,weird transformation and sensual euphoria as key ingredients.Raiding this dark pantry of writing,this new collection presents a feast of sixteen classic tales,two poems and one essay,with choice morsels by masters of the macabre including Shirley Jackson,Franz Kafka,Angela Carter and Roald Dahl.
Weight: 250g
Dimension: 130 x 190 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780712354288
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