The Secrets of Decay — Preben Major Sørensen
Stories by Preben Major Sørensen
My previous reviews of Raphus Press here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/raphus-press/
When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…
THE GARDENS
“…the executioner himself, my father-in-law, who was also my step-father,…”
A shocking absurdist story in several deadpan steps, argument, catharsis, purging, from murder by butchering knife to the gallows via gardens. But we only have the imagination of the narrator to depend on, too strong an imagination and then none of it is real, too weak, then most of it is real. And did he murder his sister or half-sister? And who was the woman who exposed her breasts at the point of his death? And does one’s imagination outlast one’s death, I am now bound to ask.
This 1983 story has a strangely loose and unintentional parallel journey with the one that, I could argue, takes place in The Big-Headed People. I am certainly interested by having been introduced to this writer of whom I had previously no knowledge. I look forward to taking my own steps through this book, more slowly, that is, than running pell mell harum scarum through a string of gardens chased by an indeterminate number of indeterminate dogs.
If I don’t, who’d have to?