The Compass Stone
This is the dark memoir of a young murderess who shares a mansion with her fatherthe Maimed Onebut lives alone in that part of it she calls the Greenhouse. An incomparable beauty, she more than once entices a man to a homicidal "soiree" at which she slits his throat with a razor while he is in the midst of orgasm. She gives no hint of her reaction to the speculation of S — -, an amateur detective whose fascination with the murders provides the novel's only element of suspense. Her own thoughts, invariably in interrogative form, may lead the reader to wonder in turn: Is there no relief from this decadence?
- L. M. Lewis, Eastern Kentucky Univ., Richmond
- Author
- Fernando Arrabal, Andrew Hurley
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 165
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780802100023
- Characters
- Marquis de Sade, Narrator (Hillyer), The Maimed One, The Sisters
- Settings
- Spain
- Genres
- spain
- Release date
- 1987
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