Bøger af Alain Arias-Misson

A major collection of short fiction by a master of literary mischief. These fifteen tales are erotic, poetic, and, often, hilarious. "The title story of Arias-Misson's THE MAN WHO WALKED ON AIR is emblematic of the fiction collection. Ruminative, cultivated, formally venturesome, smoothly (but not slickly) written, and erotic-a nuanced eroticism that takes deliciously improbable turns. A daring collection in its way, yet always engaging." --Harold Jaffe "Augustus, Alain Arias-Misson's alter ego in the book, levitates when he has an erection. Arias-Misson levitates when he writes. Take the hand he offers you. He will lead you above the coarseness and banality of much of contemporary writing to a delightfully innocent world of erotic fantasies." --Yuriy Tarnawsky

In normal, everyday tones, a story is told by the perpetrator of triple incest: first with his mother as a child and a young man, then with his daughter as he grows into mature manhood, and finally with his sister in middle age. This primeval fairytale burns with an icy passion as the narrator switches roles along with familial relationships. The quasi-metaphysical lucidity with which he pursues his odd fate is eerie, particularly in light of his apparent innocence as to the perverse nature of his taboo attachments, and the theatrical artifice with which he pursues them. In the end, his passionate desire is so earnest that the reader is left to wonder if he is truly a monster or an innocent: who is directing whom?