Blindsight
a novel
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Author
Contributions
- James Kirkup - Translator
- Kirkup, James, 1918- - Contributor
Publication
1996 - G. Braziller, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
29,750 words, Guess
Page Count
119 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL983988M
- ISBN-100807614149
- OCLC Control Number34690856
- OCLC Control Numberblindsightnovel00guib
- Library of Congress Control Number96021721
and 2 more
- LibraryThing155246
- Goodreads48494
Classifications
- DDC843/.914
- LCCPQ2667.U4612 D4713 1996
Description
Both blind, Josette and Robert live together in the Institute - a home and school for the blind. One morning, Josette is called into the director's office where she is assailed by an odor she has never before encountered. It emanates from Taillegueur (Tiger) who the director has just hired as a masseur for the Institute. Brutal, massive, and savage, Taillegueur sets off a cycle of lust, infidelity, and revenge that culminates in a gruesome crime de passion. Like Nosferatu the Vampire and other strange films Josette and Robert enjoy, Blindsight is a tale of gothic horror. Guibert writes about the blind with virtuosity, entering their minds and bodies and "seeing" the inner and outer worlds of their confined existence. For the sighted reader this produces a strange, hallucinated sensual confusion, in which colors are sounds and sounds are objects.
Subjects
Other Editions
- Blindsight: a novel
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