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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Mystery Novels by Delacorta

Nana
Luna
Lola

All are PB,  English language translations published in 1984, priced at $1 each.

The author Delacorta's  real name is Daniel Odier. He was born Swiss, studied in Paris and Rome, and wrote about music and art before he wrote two non-fiction books, one on Taoism, and one on William Burroughs, the Beat Generation writer. He then switched to writing novels, including these three, originally published in French ( 1979 to 1983).

These are not your usual mystery. If the introductory remarks are correct, Gorodish's wife, Alba, keeps getting kidnapped  by various weirdos, who turn her into an insect. Or is it just that they dress her like an insect? Or that they make love to her like an insect? Feel free to read these books and let me know exactly what is going on here.

You can find these weird mysteries in the mystery section.