A Box of Dreams
A Box of Dreams: Original Trade Paper David Madsen,
Publisher: Dedalus,
ISBN: 1903517222
DDC: 813
Edition: Paperback; 2005-04-10
Summary:
The id is out of its box and scampering all over this often hilarious
and surreally distrubing gothic romp. The narrator wakes from a dream
of sexual assault on a train--or was it' Finding himself in a
bewildering Mitteleuropa, he is counselled by a bogus Dr. Freud and
embroiled in the irrational doings of a malodorous ticket inspector,
a sadistic valet, a lascivious count and his luscious daughter. He is
also confined to a velveteen skirt and taken for an authority on
yodelling. Madsen has his favorite themes -- food, sex and Catholics
-- and here adds psychoanalysis to the mix, as the hero struggles for
self-knowledge. He sidles from dream to dream, and wakes to find his
consciousness drooling again.
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