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Item: Theatre of Incest

Alain Arias-Misson

2007

Book, 17.7 x 12.7 cm, 131 p, language: English, publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign/London. ISBN 9781564784810.
Materials: ink, paper

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2025/464).

**Literary synopsis** *Theatre of Incest* is a dream-telling that Kafka might have written in his notebook as a young man –then expunged through fire. Yet it exists here, a document, a story, a confession, a sometimes - opaque sometimes - translucent diary of psycho-sexual obsession. The story has little plot. Broken into three sections, the narrator relates through fast vignettes his role as recipient or provocateur of incestuous sex. - Mark Beyer [More](http://www.ariasmisson.com/writing.html)

Authorship: Artist Author.

Creative Strategy: No Link to Artworks.

Genre: Erotic/Pornographic, Plain Fiction.

Publishing: Publishing House.

Theme: Memory, Obsession, Perverse Sexuality, Sex.

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