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Ria Dhull at Heavy Feather Review: "Serner’s Dada roots peek through the darkness of The Tigress; there is something of the absurd within its chaos. Using his characters as a vehicle, Serner carefully breaks down the rules and systems of language, and in this decay and inversion, he creates a madness that spreads like a virus."

Fiction Review: Ria Dhull Reads Walter Serner’s Curious Love Story The Tigress Some years after Walter Serner helped bring Dadaism to Zurich, he broke away from the movement. The Tigress, perhaps Serner’s most famous work, emerged in the period after Serner’s detachment from …

Apropos of "Banned Book Week," The Tigress, the only novel by Walter Serner, is now available and on the way to the distributors for publication in November in the U.K. and December in the U.S.

When Bichette, the eponymous Tigress and uncrowned queen of Paris prostitutes, meets the grifter Fec, the unbelievable seems to happen: she is “tamed” and falls head over heels for him — and he for her. This sets off a dangerous game that spirals toward wild escalation in the luxury hotels and casinos of the French Riviera before reaching its grotesque culmination in Montmartre. The nihilism and invented personas recall Serner’s engagement with Dada as nothing anyone says or does can be taken at face value. Everything becomes a con, and love the greatest con of all.

More info here:
https://www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress.html

M.A. Orthofer has posted a review of Gerhard Rühm's Cake & Prostheses (tr. Alex Booth):
"It's a fun collection, especially in the creative stage-experiments. Rühm is not unserious, but there is a humorous edge to many of the pieces -- and quite a few are quite erotically charged as well. There's nice variety here, too, making for a good sampler of Rühm's work and language-play (with music often playing a prominent role in both)."

This is well-times since we will have The Folded Clock, a collection of Rühm's number poems – images and text – also translated by Alex Booth back from the printer in September.

Full text on The Complete Review here:
https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/austria/ruhmg.htm

More info on the books here:
https://www.twistedspoon.com/cake-and-prostheses.html
https://www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock.html