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The Butcher's Tales
In the fantastic tradition of Borges, Bruno Schulz, Angela Carter, and H. P. Lovecraft, here are nearly sixty stories that ignore the confines of space and time to offer, among other times and places: a cabinet of curiosities in contemporary Cairo, an alchemical ceiling in 18th-century Naples, the hallucinatory inner worlds of psychotics, anthropomorphic planets, and an Old West ruled by necromancy.
Stories of desire, revenge, ecstasy.
Shimmers like an oasis in a desert - Review of Contemporary Fiction
Rikki Ducornet lives in France and the USA, has participated in various post-surrealist groups and published three novels: The Stain, Entering Fire & The Fountains of Neptune (the first two were published in the UK by Chatto & Windus). She has also written six books of poetry and two of children’s fiction. Some of the stories here first appeared in French translation in Phases and Ellebore, most were included in an earlier and larger selection of The Butcher’s Tales published by Aya Press, Toronto, (1980), in an edition of 231 copies.
Stories of desire, revenge, ecstasy.
Shimmers like an oasis in a desert - Review of Contemporary Fiction
Rikki Ducornet lives in France and the USA, has participated in various post-surrealist groups and published three novels: The Stain, Entering Fire & The Fountains of Neptune (the first two were published in the UK by Chatto & Windus). She has also written six books of poetry and two of children’s fiction. Some of the stories here first appeared in French translation in Phases and Ellebore, most were included in an earlier and larger selection of The Butcher’s Tales published by Aya Press, Toronto, (1980), in an edition of 231 copies.
30 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1991
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Rikki Ducornet
66 books250 followersRikki Ducornet (born Erika DeGre, April 19, 1943 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 after accepting a teaching position in the English Department at The University of Denver. In 2007, she replaced retired Dr. Ernest Gaines as Writer in Residence at the The University of Louisiana. In 2008, The American Academy of Arts and Letters conferred upon her one of the eight annual Academy Awards presented to writers.
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 after accepting a teaching position in the English Department at The University of Denver. In 2007, she replaced retired Dr. Ernest Gaines as Writer in Residence at the The University of Louisiana. In 2008, The American Academy of Arts and Letters conferred upon her one of the eight annual Academy Awards presented to writers.
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