January 2006

Library of Wales series book 3

1902638824

Incest, murder, delusion and a devastating, tragic humour mark these three astonishing novellas that Gwyn Thomas wrote in 1946. In ‘Oscar’, the narrator of death and exploitation fails to fend off the evil that envelops him. In ‘Simeon’, the abuse of sexual and family power ends with violent death, and in ‘The Dark Philosophers’ itself, the grimly humorous philosophers gather in an Italian café in the Terraces to tell the tragic tale of comeuppance and manslaughter that they engineer.