Scribble Death

In what has been called a “post-modern Gothic exper­i­men­tal novel,” Franz Kamin inter­laces dream-narrative with death-event vignettes and rev­e­la­tions con­cern­ing the com­po­si­tion of the text. He links the scrib­bling of chil­dren, artists and dream­ers with the hopes and ter­rors of obses­sion and delir­ium. Through all of this one may almost detect a somber chuck­ling from the autho­r­ial domain. In a Baude­lairean sense, Kamin extends the comic to new ranges of the grotesque.