ON THE VERGE

by Maurice Sandoz ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 9, 1950

The combination again of Sandoz, scientist in the field of medical chemistry, and Salvador Dall (remember their Fantastic Memories in 1944?), for a group of four macabre stories of madness. The most gripping story of the group tells of a sinister interchange of identity, as a young French-Brazilian in a Marseilles' asylum, relates the story of his dependant love for a sadistic American who demanded the gift of a ""tsantsa"", a shrunken, mummified human head, of how he secured it, too late, gave it to a French museum, only to find that his head was shrinking to the Tanisa proportions, and the mummified head was growing...A second story tells of a young Jew in a Swiss institution, who imagines himself the Christ. The third and fourth deal with what may or may not be delusions, held by inmates of a Tunisian asylum. And the reader- as well as the narrator- finds himself in a daze as to what is some and what mad. The market? Those who relish a degree of morbidity, plus those interested in aspects of mental disease. The Dall oultists will add a third.

Pub Date: Nov. 9, 1950

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1950

Categories: NONFICTION