Nick Cave is that multiscenic character preceding some other versatile musician and writer like Jo nesbo, for looking for a more popular reference in the literary field.
However Nick Cave above all is the writer who would really want to be Bob Dylan. Because if Dylan is considered a better musical composer than Cave, on the other hand Cave is a much better writer than a Dylan awarded the Nobel Prize for the complacency of myth.
In this novel you can see that genius storyteller that flies over the writer Dylan, overshadowing him in his labyrinthine creations as Tarantula. Certainly we do not find in this book a typical work of an obvious genre. But the grace lies in being able to string together an action that hooks from the sensation of a becoming as tragic as it is comical as we contemplate it. This is how strange characters end up transcending, finally becoming mimetic with our own quirks disguised as everyday life.
Euchrid Eucrow, is the product of several incestuous generations of brandy consumers. With physical malformations and mute from birth, but possessed by an unusual sensitivity, which he hides under a sympathetic and indestructible bravado: he lives in an isolated community of cane growers dominated by a strict and peculiar religious sect, the Ukulites.
Subjugated by the manias and obsessions, sometimes terrifying and sometimes hilarious, of a monstrous mother and a half-psychotic father, and by the constant mockery of the rest of the community, Euchrid learns to find refuge in a world of his own, that of the heart of the city. swamp on the edge of town.
But even that safe shelter is denied him, and when his sense of loneliness and resentment ends up spilling over onto an innocent but privileged impostor, accepted within the Ukulite community, Euchrid gradually sinks into self-deception and insanity, culminating in an act that brings the terrible revenge of the valley down on him.
Despite being the first and only novel to date by Australian pop singer Nick Cave, founding member of the legendary rock group "The Birthday Party" and his current band "The Bad Seeds" as well as musical collaborator of German director Wim Wenders in his film "The sky over Berlin"; Euchrid's story, with its epic-biblical passages, its miracles, visions, and obsessive digressions, is a macabre comedy, deeply biting, brilliantly plotted, and amazingly written.
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