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Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf (Contemporary English language fiction) (Paperback)

by David Madsen (Author)
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Dedalus Ltd (2 Mar 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1873982712
  • ISBN-13: 978-1873982716
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13.5 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 272,073 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This novel opens with a stomach-turning description of the state of Pope Leo's backside. The narrator is a hunchbacked dwarf and it is his job to read aloud from St Augustine while salves and unguents are applied to the Papal posterior. The dwarf moves in the highest circles of holt skulduggery and buggery...

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4.0 out of 5 stars Orginal and fast moving, 28 Sep 2001
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This is the sort of book that is hard to put down once you start reading, it is fast paced and well written. There is an underlying eroticism that bubbles to the surface at regular intervals and is used to graphically underline the brutality and sexuality of the times in which the book is set. The book is written from the dwarf's perspective and charts his life from gutter to Pope's household with his conversion to gnosticism along the way. Part of the gnostic belief is that flesh is Satan's invention and as such all things associated with the body, such as love making, are 'evil' and to be despised. This then explains the rather brutal detachement used to describe sexual acts and even death in the book. On one level this works well, illustrating the 'entrapment' of flesh and struggle of the soul to be free, but is less convincing when the finer emotions of love and trust are displayed. Still well worth reading as a highly original account of life in a time of religious fear and political manipulation that drags you along for the ride, whether you want to turn the page or not.
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