Of course one cannot speak of the role of houses without a special reference to Malpertuis, a novel thought by many of those who have written about the work of Jean Ray to be one of his greatest achievements, his masterpiece even. It is certainly a narrative tour de force, with multiple narrators and multiple layers of description, brought together by the author, who writes as a sort of unifying homodiegetic narrator. Owned by Cassave, an old wizard, Malpertuis is a huge house, where most of the action takes place. Malpertuis is apparently the name of a fox’s lair in a popular tale, but can also point to the devil’s house, if we use a more symbolic approach. It is described as a dark, labyrinthine and apparently endless structure full of secrets permanently hidden away behind heavy closed doors. --António Monteiro, Weird Fiction Review 21 Nov. 2011
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 01:53:48 +0000
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