Visions and Temptations

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Spurning carnal desire and earthly temptations all his life, the mystic Othlo is now in the care of his brother monks including the odious and semen-filled Wolkbart. Despite the spare walls which surround him, he frolics with Holy Dionysius in the Garden of Head-bearers (each carries his own head for eternity), descends from the island of Heaven, visits a brothel patronized by fallen angels, and witnesses the souls of the once gluttoinous wealthy fighting over scraps of rotting crabmeat in a ditch in Hell.The third and final book in a series about mankind’s desire to conquer nature, Visions and Temptations follows Awake and Sublunar. In each novel, a great if imperfect mind facesis failed by the inevitable demise of the body.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-08-19
Mått132 x 203 x 10 mm
Vikt127 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor128
FörlagNew Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN9780811229807
ÖversättareJohanne Sorgenfri Ottosen

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Nominated for the Nordic Council Prize, the Danish author Harald Voetmann (b. 1978) has written novels, short stories, poetry and a monograph on the Roman poet Sulpicia. He also translates classical Latin literature, notably Petronius and Juvenal. Voetmann has completed a trilogy of historical novels: Awake records the wheezing monologue of ancient Italian writer Pliny the Elder; Sublunar centers on sixteenth-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe; Visions and Temptations introduces the eleventh-century German mystic Othlo of St. Emmeram. Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen is a Danish translator born in 1986. She currently lives in Copenhagen where she also works as an illustrator and literary editor.