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When reason sleeps under the watchful eye of the reader

Goya The Sleep of Reason

"The fancy, without reason, produces monstrosities; United, they bring forth the true artists and create wonders. "(Goya)

Beginning a feature on Gabrielle Wittkop, the tavern will host in conjunction with Anne-Francoise Kavauvea, who introduced the threshold his blog, and will conclude the most likely December 22, the anniversary of the commemoration of his death, by a chronicle of Necrophile The first novel flagship of the work of one of the most iconoclastic French authors.

Composed of six new qu'épouvantables also delectable, The sleep of reason , published posthumously in 2003, is a preferred gateway to the dark and ambivalent work of Gabrielle Wittkop behind each page which explores the territories in the shadows of the unconscious, ready to resurface at the slightest sign of weakness on the right.


The monstrosity includes so imprecise, distorted in a way, all classes of the population, which escape, one way or another, with the conventions that govern nature. If that is repulsive deformity Elementary these unusual beings, the singularities of each prompt to enter their world multiple. To infiltrate the world's best locking these supernatural creatures and unique, to make the most of their heady fragrances, the use of certain substances delicious, or the influence of some unspeakable tortures, add to the staggering size of these accounts.

"It's easy to defend the principles in words. It is already harder to condemn without hypocrisy and cruelty we have seen where it drew an unexpected delight as secret. "

Obscenity the observer is not she able to give birth in the control of this disgusting voyeurism disgust proportional to the delight with which the first indulges his tendencies? Are not decently brought us to ask ourselves about the real identity of the monster? Whoever without restraint themselves to the vices of mankind does he not more stigma than the monstrosity that must suffer the differences of nature?

In the first story that gives the title to the collection, it was the visitors an asylum gathering phenomena show that excite the perversity of those offering them champagne to attend an orgy where they'll remain on the sidelines.

then miraculously fallen, Madeleine does not symbolize the eyes of more than Clement Belly atrophied that characterized his aunt, nicknamed Spider, because of the astonishing ability of contortion before it. When compassion and pity mingled with repulsion, monstrosity is a polymorphism that sparkles upset the feelings of the lover.

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Monsters or chimeras? This is not so much the object being observed is important here that the spirit of one who confronts them. In Like father, like daughter the way mirror, windshield protecting privacy, turned to the erotic life of his paternal and double fantasy, allows Gabrielle feasible alter-ego of the author who has never hidden his homosexuality to have, by stealth, access via proxy connection to the dark side of sexuality of his mistresses, while espousing the view the contours of the desired woman who later reappear in the same bed that it.

Loneliness creates the Harley conditions conducive to the emergence of a figure likely to obsessively fill gaps in love with the isolated and with only death could stop permanently. Harley, avatar, which to survive the visions of Jean-Marie, must stand on its own, be reincarnated in creature supervisor angelic dreams of being loved, the risk of waking up in hell of a terrible start. In

Image gray is a building that the exhibition center, whose remarkable structure jeopardizes the city during the war, which arouses the attention, thus taking on the status of the monstrous story. Corridor network and intricate underground galleries, interconnected by a maze of spiral staircases and unsuspected hollows, the urban labyrinth is shown by the abominable innocent games of hide and seek causes it, and it plays the role developer early provisions for lust, eventually becoming the scene of crimes perpetrated against these children who dared defied the ban. Tormented by its construction and elusive, with its irresistible, the palace seems to represent the negative of the human brain.

Series disparate and disturbing The sleep of reason has a atmosphere and a charm which the writing was literally poisonous contaminated beyond reading.

• Rediscover: The Sleep of Reason Gabrielle Wittkop Vertical Editions (2003) after a partial edition under the name The Holocausts in Veyrier Henry (1976)