Ebook {Epub PDF} The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter

Shelves: 20th-century, novel, british-isles, angela-carter. A crazy quest book, the narrator is sent on a quest to defeat the fiendish Doctor Hoffman whose peculiar desire machines are sapping the life from the entire country. Rather like Oblomov this is a circular /5.  · The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. The transformation of Desiderio’s city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues and plazas are suddenly as fertile as fairy-book forests. And the evil comes, too, as imaginary massacres fill the streets with blood, the dead return. A satirical tale of magic and sex, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman is a dazzling quest for truth, love and identity. Read more Read less © Angela Carter (P) Audible, Ltd/5(86).

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A satirical tale of magic and sex, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman is a dazzling quest for truth, love and identity. Read more Read less © Angela Carter (P) Audible, Ltd. Angela Carter: The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman (US: The War of Dreams) A fantastic (in both senses of the word) journey into the id, ego and superego, with Carter giving us Freud, Frazier and even Fromm, all brilliantly thrown into the mix. The narrator/hero – Desiderio – who is telling us the story as an old man, was the confidential secretary to the Minister of Determination in an unnamed country, apparently located in or to the South of the United States. A powerful, provocative, and at times, funny story about a city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines. Desiderio, a city employee, has fallen in love with Albertina, the doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a pretty maiden made of glass, will only appear to him in his dreams.