In Gargoyle Hotel, book one of the Carbon City Trilogy, Christopher Sartisohn unleashes his new mythology for the digital age. Floating somewhere between hallucinatory novel and surrealistic short story collection, prose poetry and radical fiction, these modular “hypershorts” codify fragmentary and disjointed mindscapes unified through Sartisohn’s singular vision.
Exploiting an implicit control of language and idiom with the fierce experimentation of Joyce, Miller, and Burroughs, Sartisohn delivers a collage of hypnotic and often shocking imagery swinging pendulously between rapt euphoria and apocalyptic dystopia.Gargoyle Hotel is kaleidoscopic, sprawling, decadent, disturbing, wildly detailed, bursting with abstract techno-sexuality and existential paranoia—a hypermodern masterpiece of prophetic, ethereal beauty.
Includes 39 pictorial "text art" collages by the author derived from the written text.
contents
Raise a Glass to the End of the World
The Apocalypse Engine
The Temple Of Poseidon
The Trident
Wolf River
The Guilty
The Birth (Eight Legs to Go)
The Crimson Tooth
Cowboy Boots
The Hungry (A True Story)
The Scab
Deluge
Coprophilic Symphony
The Blue Elevator
The Crimson Lounge
Flesh Marimba
Bonsai Mermaids
Temple of the Golden Flesh
Utopian Cliff Dream
Zombie Doubloons
Frozen Music
The Comet
Venusian Meat Locker for Martian Flesh Rocket
Solar Alien Candle
Improvise the Tissue
Hellhounds
Re/Cycle (The Heathen Contraption)
Apes and Rhinos
Primate Heroin Eyes
God’s Dildo
The Corpse
A Night to End All Humanity
Gargoyle Hotel
A Cry of Pain a Sign of Life
A collage of hypnotic and shocking imagery swinging pendulously between rapt euphoria and apocalyptic dystopia...