Book Review: 'Butcher,' by Joyce Carol Oates - The New York Times
Through the lens of a 19th-century doctor, Joyce Carol Oates explores gothic medical horror.
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Through the lens of a 19th-century doctor, Joyce Carol Oates explores gothic medical horror.
“The great events I went in search of failed to reach my expectations," wrote Alfred de Vigny, a friend of the French poet Charles Baudelaire. Richard Sieburth’s translations of Baudelaire’s last writings arrive over a century late, so they are just in time for the empty triumph of what Baudelaire called “the cult of images.”