The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror StoryThe Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas. In September 1913, Mieczysaw, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitzs Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status, and to discuss

in which she narrates her father’s slow rise to material comfort

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With mining came jobs and investment

and of Orson Wells’s infamous object of obsession Rosebud

Cory Doctorow explains how to seize the means of computation

Multatuli (meaning “I have suffered greatly”) was the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker

it was part of the prevailing policy during the war – one designed to crush the Palestinian economy

Poses are more important than policies

This book is the result of a research project begun by the author in 1958 with the aim of answering two questions:

its fluctuation over the course of their lives

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