Archive for November 16, 2010
MASTER SIGER’S DREAM by A. W. Deannuntis
Reading A.W. Deannuntis’ debut novel, MASTER SIGER’S DREAM, put me in mind of the John Kennedy Toole masterpiece A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES. The epigraph for that book – When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him – could easily do service here. In the role of the genius is 13th century philosopher Siger of Brabant, with the dunces being played by the Bishop of Paris, Etienne Tempier, the Papal Legate, Simon De Brion, and various anonymous sadists of the Roman Catholic Inquisition.
November 16, 2010
Tags: 13th-Century, medieval Posted in: Alternate History, Character Driven, Debut Novel, Humorous, Real Event Fiction, Unique Narrative 
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