My German publisher, Frank Nowatzke of Pulp Master, just sent me the Google translation of another rave review in a Stuttgart newspaper. You can read the original German version at:
“Stuttgart
- Frank Nowatzkis Pulp Master is well known as a publishing house for
disturbing ones. Seamus Smyth's "Revenge of Revenge" and Gerald
Kersh's "The Dead Look" are books that are hard to bear in their
artistic and historical truth. Les Edgerton, whose novel "Der
Vergewaltiger" ("Der Verwaltiger"), has also looked quite a bit
since its appearance - but there is no historical event in the background but
only the guilt of an individual (the one with the atonement is in this case
such a thing ). The author has not thought of a hero, but an enemy of man who,
intelligently and formally educated, faces his surroundings only with hatred
and contempt. This Truman Ferris Pinter goes his way, he is financially
independent and does not have to work as a teacher, anyway he finds students
disgusting.
One
night, Pinter watches three men and a woman while sex on the way home in the
forest. During the day, the girl dives with him while he is fishing and starts
to mock him. There is a quarrel, Pinter rests and rapes his victim. Afterwards,
he says in court, he says in the prison, he tells the reader that the girl has
stumbled, headed against a stone, and drowned in the river.
Pinter
is sentenced to death for murder, in prison, he examines the past, analyzes his
presence, paints his future, and mentions, as by chance, authors such as Albert
Camus and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. As an "unreliable narrator", he leaves
the reader unclear as to what is to be said of all this. True to Truman Ferris
Pinter is just his cold - and the fate that is heading for it. Or in the end
not? How good that the illuminating epilogue of Ekkehard Knörer classifies this
extraordinary piece of literature.”
There have been a dozen great reviews so far!
Blue skies,
Les
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