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Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman | Angela Carter
The transformation of Desiderio's city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues and plazas are suddenly as fertile as fairy-book forests. And the evil comes, too, as imaginary massacres fill the streets with blood, the dead return to question the living, and profound anxiety drives hundreds to suicide.Behind it all stands Doctor Hoffman, whose gigantic generators crack the immutable surfaces of time and space and plunge civilization into a world without the chains or structures of reason. Only Desiderio, immune to mirages and fantasy, can defeat him. But Desiderio's battle will take him to the very brink of undeniable, irresistible desire."
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Cazxxx
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“Everything it is possible to imagine can also exist”

So wonderfully weird!

4 ⭐️

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Bibliobear
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“Reason cannot produce the poetry disorder does.”

Remembering Angela Carter on her birthday.

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Emilymdxn
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I knew this was going to be surreal, and that turned out to be an understatement. I read it more slowly than I usually read and still feel like there was a lot I didn‘t grasp. The prose was beautiful (as I expect from Angela Carter) but there was also a lot more sexual violence than I was expecting. Gorgeous in places but also brutal and confusing

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kristyliekwhoa
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One of the more unique stories I've read in a long while. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. Angela Carter.

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