Moju: The Blind Beast (Shinbaku Books: Fictions)
by Edogawa Rampo
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In Edogawa Rampo's "Moju: The Blind Beast", a deranged, scarred and sightless sculptor kidnaps a model and imprisons her in a psychedelic labyrinth of giant sculpted eyes and other outlandish body parts, before dismembering her in a fearful blood-orgy. Her limbs, head and torso are later found scattered throughout Tokyo. The blind killer continues his sexually-charged spree of amputation and decapitation, claiming several more victims before finally presenting his work at an acclaimed art show more exhibition in which the sculptures are a little too life-like for comfort... The most disturbing of Rampo's novels, "Moju: The Blind Beast" is a classic of grinding horror and weird sex, tainted with a virulent black humour. It represents one of the earliest literary examples of the Japanese "erotic-grotesque" genre, in which such subjects as dismemberment, mutilation, coprophilia and cannibalism are presented in a perverse sexual context. This is a special ebook presentation of the first-ever English translation of Rampo's classic.. show less
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Another erotic grotesque short novel by Edogawa Rampo, master of this genre. What do we find in this one? Beautiful women, ugly blind man, dismembering, masturbation, gruesome crime scenes... Not necessarily in that order. Not the best Edogawa I've read... but keep in mind these were mass published in some sort of pulp magazines at the time, they're not made to be more than popular adult entertainment.
The introduction to the Shinbaku edition/translation deals with the different movie adaptation of this book and is pretty entertaining. There are a few illustrations from the original magazines in which the novel was published, which makes this read particularly interesting for scholars studying pulp from Japan's 1920s-1930s.
The introduction to the Shinbaku edition/translation deals with the different movie adaptation of this book and is pretty entertaining. There are a few illustrations from the original magazines in which the novel was published, which makes this read particularly interesting for scholars studying pulp from Japan's 1920s-1930s.
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- Canonical title*
- La Bête aveugle
- Original publication date
- 1931
- Related movies*
- Blind Beast (1969 | IMDb)
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Horror, General Fiction, Mystery
- DDC/MDS
- 895.6344 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Japanese Japanese fiction Meiji/Taishō periods 1868–1945 1912–1945
- LCC
- PL826 .D6 .M613 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Japanese language and literature Japanese literature Individual authors and works
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- Languages
- English, French, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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- ASINs
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