hwalib.blogg.se - Melmoth review

exquisitely balanced' Francis Spufford 'Packs a punch of atmosphere, creepiness, fear and melancholy' Susan Hill 'Mythic, ominous and sensitively human' Frances Hardinge 'Richly atmospheric, daring and surprising' Melissa Harrison 'Striking and brave. Perry's masterly piece of postmodern gothic is one of the great achievements of our century' The Observer SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE OBSERVER FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 'Beautiful, devastating, brilliant' Marian Keyes 'Astonishingly dark. 'Hugely readable and profoundly important.

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It seems that this extravagantly fantastical book, full of manufactured mysteries and supernatural shocks, wants to be read as a vindication of the rights of journalism. There’s a type of writing which does exactly that, and it isn’t Gothic horror. it’s not just witnessing but bearing witness-in other words, providing testimony-that the novel asks us to see as virtuous. But Perry’s moral project isn’t limited to doling out punishments for her wicked characters. It’s hard to know what to make of a novel in which denying the resurrection of Christ and condemning a Jewish family to Theresienstadt can result in the same fate. But the writing becomes increasingly uniform, and every time Melmoth appears it takes a turn for the worse.

The contrasting voices in the Melmoth dossier allow Perry to exercise her talent. Black magic, diabolical curses, ghoulish apparitions: these phenomena aren’t often found in books that have something to say about real-life atrocities. Perry’s characters have.become blessedly nastier.