A Portrait of an Englishman in His Chateau

by André Pieyre de Mandiargues

When the unnamed narrator crosses the causeway to the Chateau of Gamehuche, he enters a surrealist nightmare of debauchery and violence. The proceedings at the chateau are presided over by the master of Gamehuche, M. de Montcul, formerly the English diplomat, Sir Horatio Mountarse. With a cast of willing and not-so-willing acolytes, he serves up an over-refined cuisine of obscenity, sexual perversion and unspeakable cruelty. The book could be described...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1873982933
• ISBN13: 9781873982938
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Dedalus
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.8"