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The Suspended Vocation by Pierre Klossowski; Jeremy M. Davies; Anna Fitzgerald; Brian Evenson is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Suspended Vocation about?
Pierre Klossowski's debut novel, The Suspended Vocation, fictionalizes and satirizes the great erotic artist, philosopher, and iconoclast's brief, wartime flirtation with the priesthood, portraying the Church as a haven for conspiracy, idolatry, perversion, and even atheism. Written in the form of a disapproving monograph on an anonymous, confessional novel (itself titled The Suspended Vocation), it is the story of the hapless Jérôme, whose lust for holiness leads him astray in a cloistered world full of ideological and physical temptations. Sometimes a knowing critique of "religious fiction," sometimes a wicked self-parody of Klossowski's own lifelong obsessions, and sometimes a sacerdotal spy novel, The Suspended Vocation is one of the strangest and most audacious debuts in twentieth-century literature, and is here made available in English for the very first time.
Who reads The Suspended Vocation?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Pierre Klossowski; Jeremy M. Davies; Anna Fitzgerald; Brian Evenson
- Publisher
- Small Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781734838206
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction
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