2 novels by Robert Irwin
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Overview: Robert Graham Irwin (born 23 August 1946) is a British historian, novelist, and writer on Arabic literature. He has published a history of Orientalism and is an acknowledged expert on The Arabian Nights. Many of Irwin’s novels focus on Arabic themes. This includes his first, the acclaimed dark fantasy novel The Arabian Nightmare. Alan Moore, the comic’s creator, has described Irwin as a "fantastic writer".
Genre: Fiction / Historical Fiction
Exquisite Corpse
Set in London, Paris, and Munich in the 1940s and 1950s, Exquisite Corpse is, like Irwin’s cult classic, The Arabian Nightmare, a novel about the strange and ever-morphing powers of the imagination–at once a love story, a mystery, and an investigation into the ideas of absurdist art.
Caspar, the narrator of Exquisite Corpse, is one of an odd group of friends known as the Serapion Botherhood-a group of artists, painters, and writers who are experimenting, expanding, and developing the then-nascent concept of surrealism. While the real-life figures André Breton, Salvador Dali, and Henry Moore–among others–move in and out of the narrative, Caspar details his and his friends’ investigations into sex, surrealism, hypnagogic imagery, waxworks, mesmerism, and madness.
Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh
The virginal hero of the tale, Prince Orkhan, escapes from the Cage of the Imperial Harem, in which the sons of the sultan are imprisoned, and finds himself hailed by the Harem’s concubines as their new Sultan. He is immediately caught up in the excesses and perversions of the harem. But evil flourishes in a bed of boredom and, after allowing the Viper to drink at the Tavern of the Perfume-Makers, Orkhan enters a maze of complicated relationships, all orchestrated by the devotees of the Prayer-Cushion movement. Temptation, seduction, story-telling, and magic are used to lure the Sultan towards a climax which is designed to be both ecstatic and fatal.
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