A Box of Dreams: Original Trade Paper [Paperback]

David Madsen (Author)

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Series: Original Fiction in Paperback | Publication Date: April 10, 2005

The id is out of its box and scampering all over this often hilarious and surreally distrubing gothic romp. The narrator wakes from a dream of sexual assault on a train--or was it’ Finding himself in a bewildering Mitteleuropa, he is counselled by a bogus Dr. Freud and embroiled in the irrational doings of a malodorous ticket inspector, a sadistic valet, a lascivious count and his luscious daughter. He is also confined to a velveteen skirt and taken for an authority on yodelling. Madsen has his favorite themes -- food, sex and Catholics -- and here adds psychoanalysis to the mix, as the hero struggles for self-knowledge. He sidles from dream to dream, and wakes to find his consciousness drooling again.

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About the Author

David Madsen is the pseudonym of a theologian and philosopher whose work has been translated into twelve languages.

Product Details

• Paperback: 210 pages
• Publisher: Dedalus Ltd (April 10, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1903517222
• ISBN-13: 978-1903517222
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,560,533 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Kafka meets Rabelais on a train, October 6, 2006

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This review is from: A Box of Dreams: Original Trade Paper (Paperback)

Imagine to find yourself on a train with a sadistic guard and a psychiatrist called Dr. Freud who is NOT the founder of Psychoanalysis, but a slightly unbalanced homonymous; imagine going in a castle that's not a castle, where you're supposed to give a lecture on a zany subject of wich you know nothing; imagine havbing your lecture interrupted by ferocious carnivorous cows. This is unquestionably the most weird and loopy (in many senses) novel of the mysterious Madsen, having something in common with Delany's Dhalgren.