· Rikki Ducornet's real talent is for language. She is a minor lord or lady of it, achieving abstruse comic effects by a kind of clowning classicism. The Stain is a very odd, accomplished and memorable novel by any standards."Brand: Dalkey Archive Press. In The Stain Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. "Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monkish rapists, and Satan" (Kirkus), as well as the village exorcist, inhabit this bawdy tale of perversion, power, possession. · Rating details · ratings · 40 reviews. In "The Stain" Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. "Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monkish rapists, and Satan" (Kirkus), as well as the village exorcist /5(40).
Rikki Ducornet. The author of nine novels, three collections of short fiction, two books of essays and five books of poetry, Rikki Ducornet has received both a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award For Fiction. She has received the Bard College Arts and Letters award and, in , an Academy Award in Literature. This is part 1 of a video of me reading my paper at the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction Fantasy in Toronto on June 6, The confer. Rikki Ducornet's real talent is for language. She is a minor lord or lady of it, achieving abstruse comic effects by a kind of clowning classicism. The Stain is a very odd, accomplished and memorable novel by any standards.".
In The Stain Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. "Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monkish rapists, and Satan" (Kirkus), as well as the village exorcist, inhabit this bawdy tale of perversion, power, possession. In addition, Ducornet is a contributor to (on “Imagination”) and the subject of an entry in the 3-volume International Encyclopedia of Surrealism; for her entry in the latter, Ducornet told critic Michelle Ryan-Sautour that she did not know “what it means to ‘do’ surrealism. I do know, however, that my process is informed by, energized by, sparked by memory, dreams, reflection AND HAZARD and intuition, EROS above all. THE STAIN. by Rikki Ducornet ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monk-ish rapists, and Satan: first-novelist Ducornet tosses these familiar dark-gothic elements around in a stylish but dankly heavy-handed tale--mildly surreal, faintly black-comic--of s rural France. The girl-victim here is Charlotte.
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