Beskrivning
O Altitudo is a hardcover book of 100 pages with illustrated endpapers, a full-colour frontispiece and a dust-jacket. Edition limited to 100 copies.
“I love to lose my selfe in a mystery; to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.”
― Sir Thomas Browne.
O Altitudo offers the reader four encounters with the strange, the wondrous, and the uncanny: an urban explorer peregrinates the psychotopography of Copenhagen; a failed seeker of mysteries comes upon ‘spots of evil’ which open new vistas of reality; in the spring of 1938 an old Austrian refugee from the horrors in utero arrives in Denmark, carrying the blazing light of the past; and the final story explores the idea, expressed by
the Reverend Montague Summers, ‘that evil may attach itself to possessions’ …
Contents
I. In Search of the Hidden City
II. The Auwisnat Transfigurations
III. The Émigré Emperor
IV. The Furnished Room
“I love to lose my selfe in a mystery; to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.”
― Sir Thomas Browne.
O Altitudo offers the reader four encounters with the strange, the wondrous, and the uncanny: an urban explorer peregrinates the psychotopography of Copenhagen; a failed seeker of mysteries comes upon ‘spots of evil’ which open new vistas of reality; in the spring of 1938 an old Austrian refugee from the horrors in utero arrives in Denmark, carrying the blazing light of the past; and the final story explores the idea, expressed by
the Reverend Montague Summers, ‘that evil may attach itself to possessions’ …
Contents
I. In Search of the Hidden City
II. The Auwisnat Transfigurations
III. The Émigré Emperor
IV. The Furnished Room
Bokdetaljer
Format
Inbunden
Sidor
94 sidor
Språk
Engelska
Publicerad
feb 1, 2013
Förlag
Ex Occidente Press (Les Editions de L'Oubli)