Rikki Ducornet

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April 19, 1949 in New York City, New York, The United States

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Rikki Ducornet (born Erica DeGre, April 19, 1949 in Canton, New York) is an American postmodernist, writer, poet, and artist.

Ducornet's father was a professor of sociology, and her mother hosted community-interest programs on radio and television. Ducornet grew up on the campus of Bard College in New York, earning a B.A. in Fine Arts from the same institution in 1964. While at Bard she met Robert Coover and Robert Kelly, two authors who shared Ducornet's fascination with metamorphosis and provided early models of how fiction might express this interest. In 1972 she moved to the Loire Valley in France with her then husband, Guy Ducornet. In 1988 she won a Bunting Institute fellowship at Radcliffe. In 1989 she moved back to North America afte...more

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Books by Rikki Ducornet

Average rating: 3.78 · 1,329 ratings · 229 reviews · 31 distinct works

	Netsuke 3.18 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Jade Cabinet 3.99 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade 3.59 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Butcher’s Tales 4.03 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Fountains of Neptune 4.34 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Gazelle 3.90 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Stain 3.97 avg rating — 63 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Phosphor in Dreamland 3.80 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	The Word Desire 4.08 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Entering Fire 4.07 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.”
― Rikki Ducornet, The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade

tags: books , reading

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“Next I prayed to Allah, whose ears are deaf; then did I beseech his fallen twin, the Devil Hornprick, who sits upon his thorn of fire, gloating upon his constellations and counting his bloody seeds. In Baclava it is said Hornprick once caught a glimpse of the First Woman, as she sat singing to her snake in her chamber of sacred mud. Dazzled by her sight, the light of love and lust, he fell. He is still falling. For all eternity her breasts orbit his dreams.”
― Rikki Ducornet, Contemporary Surrealist Prose

tags: damnation , devil , woman

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“The child is born speaking the languages of birds; the child has horns and scales and wings; it has a beak; it has a cloven hoof. He is the sum of all creatures: the ones that swim, the ones that soar, the ones that leap, the ones that maze the earth with burrows.”
― Rikki Ducornet, Netsuke

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