“Here Lies No One”:Reflections on the Metaphysics of The RackFull review >>
[1]6,139 words
A. E. Ellis (Derek Lindsay)
The Rack [2]
London: Heinemann, 1958; Richmond, Va.: Valancourt, 2014 (with a new introduction by Andrew Sinclair)
Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! He hates him much
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch him out longer. — King Lear, 5.3.314
“I have written of evil. . . . Naturally I have exaggerated the pitch along the lines of that sublime literature which sings of despair only to cast down the reader and make him desire the good as the remedy.” — Lautréamont to the publisher of his Chants de Maldoror (emphasis added)
Valancourt Press continues its wholly admirable project of bring back into print — and hopefully to you attention — works of British...
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Jan 5th 2019