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The Murdered City and Other Stories

✍ Scribed by Fernand Mysor

Book ID
111684766
Publisher
Hollywood Comics
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Weight
201 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781612277912

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In The Murdered City (1925), Blasius, an unknown and mocked scholar, manages to create a philosopher’s stone which transforms everything it touches into gold. This diabolical man acquires an island, gathers other unfortunate people, builds a fantastic city and reigns over it. The Murdered City has affinities with accounts of island utopias gone wrong and doomed superscientific cities. Science enables the fulfillment of the ancient alchemical dream, but gold here functions as a symbol of modern civilization as an irresistible force of corruption. A second novel included in this volume, By Wireless (1927), shares the speculative elements of the plot, the strange character of its disfigured protagonist, and the bizarrerie of his hopeless and fatal amorous obsession. Fernand Mysor never achieved any great success and has been almost forgotten. A writer of such imaginative range deserves to be better known today, when more readers are capable of appreciating his exotic artistry and interested in discovering unusual themes and philosophical viewpoints.

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