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Tetralogy of Elements Series

This series delves into the dark and bizarre corners of the human psyche, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. Its narratives explore themes of perversion, power, and the loss of innocence, often employing surreal and unsettling imagery. It's a body of work that challenges conventional storytelling, leaving readers with a profound and often disturbing impact. Readers seeking bold, boundary-pushing literature will find much to engage with.

Stain
Entering Fire

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  1. 1

    Stain

    • 223 pages
    • 8 hours of reading
    4.0(261)Add rating

    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, and the rape of innocence. Ducornet weaves an intricate design of fantasy and reality, at once surreal, hilarious, and terrifying.

    Stain
  2. 2

    Entering Fire

    • 168 pages
    • 6 hours of reading
    4.2(103)Add rating

    This startling and brilliantly comic novel tells the stories of two men: a father and his estranged son. Lamprias de Bergerac is a gentle mystic and amateur botanist who spends his middle-aged years in an erotic utopia deep in the Amazonian jungle, collecting specimens of rare orchids and ultimately finding Cucla, the young and free-spirited native woman who has become the love of his life. Meanwhile, his demented son Septimus is raised by his mother in prewar Europe, seething with hatred of the father who abandoned him. He rises to power in Nazi-occupied France, where he goes mad in an obsessive pursuit of racial purity. Rikki Ducornet has a gift for combining the horrific with the hilarious, the realistic with the fantastic. Through a wildly inventive narrative, Entering Fire scrutinizes the sources of fascist mentality in nations and, potentially, in all humans.

    Entering Fire