Otrevligheter

ALASTOR PRESS 

Otrevlighet is a collection of short stories about death, madness and religious anguish, written in barbed-wire prose as cruel as it is incomparable by Léon Bloy (1846-1917), the “author of constant rage” and the “genius of invective”. Here is presented – for the first time in Swedish – this melting pot of insults that tears up evil flowers on the dunghill of modernism. But Bloy’s frothing misanthropy is propelled by a deep despair at people’s deafness to God. “Priests are latrines. They are there so that the filth of humanity can gush out.”

Title: Unpleasantness
Original title: Histoires désobligeantes
Author: Léon Bloy
Language: Swedish
Translator: Elias Wraak
Designer: Susanne Johansson

Format: Wired paperback
Number of pages: 250
Published: September 2017

ISBN: 97891896334456

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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.