De lemlästade

ALASTOR PRESS 

Franz Polzer has worked at the bank for seventeen years; he has not missed a single day. Franz Polzer's childhood friend, Karl Fanta, is ill. Body part by body part he is slowly rotting away. He forces his wife Dora to do disgusting things. Franz Polzer rents a room with the widow Mrs. Porges, she is the one with the middle leg, the hideous middle leg. His aunt had a middle leg, and she used to hold Polzer while his father beat him furiously. What does Mrs. Porges want, why does she look at Polzer so strangely? And who is the mysterious attendant Sonntag, what is he going to use his big butcher knife for, and why does he have a bloody apron packed in his suitcase? Franz Polzer hears someone moving in the corridor; the old, rotten floorboards creak with every step. Who is there, who is hiding in the darkness, a murderer? Now everything is going to collapse – now someone has to die.

In his humor, which is pitch black, in his sexual melancholy, in his bitter and often unpleasantly deliberate way of expressing his philosophy of life – in his spiritual and even physical physiognomy, there was a pallor, a death mark, an unwavering hopelessness. One does not have to be a psychic to interpret this prophetically; and does all this prevent me from considering his early death an accident? (Thomas Mann on Hermann Ungar)

Title: The Mutilated
Original title: Die verstümmelten
Author: Hermann Ungar
Language: Swedish
Translator: Arthur Isfelt

Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
Published: November 2008

ISBN: 9789189633209

MORE INFORMATION

Alastor Press is a Swedish independent publisher with a focus on literature that moves in the dark, esoteric and artistically distinctive. The publisher is known for its careful editions of both classic and contemporary works in areas such as decadence, symbolism, horror and philosophical fiction. With an eye for the obscure and cult, Alastor Press highlights writing that challenges, seduces and lingers.