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Exquisite Corpse
By Robert Irwin
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Novel about love and madness amongst the British surrealists.
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Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin is a novelist, historian, critic, and scholar and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the author of seven novels, among them The Arabian Nightmare (1988), which Neil Gaiman has called "one of the finest fantasies of the last century." Robert Irwin resides in England.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The story is unconventional but interesting. The narrator, Caspar, is a painter in the Surrealist movement in London in the 1930's. He is part of a group of artists called the Serapion Brotherhood. One day, as an exercise in enhancing one sense by losing another, he is being led around London blindfolded by his friend Mackellar. In a pub Mackellar abandons him but leaves a note with a young woman asking her to help Caspar. This woman, Caroline, becomes the love of Caspar's life. However, they never become lovers even though they travel together to London and share a bed. Caspar becomes convinced that he must mesmerize Caroline in order to get her to bed so he starts training himself in hypnotism techniques. Sadly, this drives Caroline further away and she almost never agrees to meet with him. In fact she talks to him about another man she has met. Finally she comes around to his studio and tells him she thinks she might be pregnant (obviously not by him). Caspar does not know how to react and she leaves. Caspar then goes to Germany for two months and returns with a plan to recapture Caroline even if it means accepting her other lover. However, Caroline has disappeared. In this pre-war period, Surrealism is faltering. The final blow to the movement is when the head of the Serapion Brotherhood kills himself. So Caspar has lost his love and most of his best friends. During the war Caspar works as a war artist and sees many horrifying things including the concentration camp at Belsen. His dreams and even his days are haunted by what he has seen. He believes that if he could just meet Caroline again his life would improve. I don't want to reveal the ending but, suffice it to say, it is surreal.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is not really about me at all. Not only is this book not about me, it is also not written for you - unless your name is Caroline. What you hold in your hands is not literature, but a magical trap. Its sole purpose is to seek out Caroline. I have to publish the book of course and I imagine so many copies of Exquisite Corpse floating in so many stoppered bottles on strange and distant seas. The paradox is that publication on as wide a scale as possible is essential to my purpose, but really the book that is published is a private thing and destined for one reader only.The publishers, Dedalus, provided lots of copies of this novel for the 2005 UK Bookcrossing Unconvention and this one ended up in my goody-bag. The extremely unpleasant cover picture put me off reading it for a long time, but when I finally gave it a go, I was surprised to find an enjoyable story inside.Caspar, a mentally unstable painter and member of the surrealist Serapion Brotherhood in mid-1930s London, falls obsessively in love with a secretary called Caroline, much to the disapproval of his bohemian friends. He finds Caroline surprisingly elusive and fifteen years after her disappearance he writes a book that he refers to as an anti-memoir, in an attempt to lure her back to him.