Björn recenserade Vathek av William Beckford (Oxford world's classics)
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3 stjärnor
Fun, if slight, over the top gothic pastiche of Doctor Faustus as filtered through every orientalist cliche you can imagine. Of course it's blazingly racist, but then again, so's Lovecraft and that's not the only connection between the two - ol' HP must have worn out the last few pages of his copy. Plus it's interesting to read a Western novel that complains that muslim rulers aren't religious enough...
Fun, if slight, over the top gothic pastiche of Doctor Faustus as filtered through every orientalist cliche you can imagine. Of course it's blazingly racist, but then again, so's Lovecraft and that's not the only connection between the two - ol' HP must have worn out the last few pages of his copy. Plus it's interesting to read a Western novel that complains that muslim rulers aren't religious enough...