Anatomy of the Devil - Short Stories by Walerian Borowczyk

Anatomy of the Devil: Short Stories by Walerian Borowczyk / 158-page paperback, 6.75 x 7.75 inches, color illustrations, published by Rotland Books in an edition of 500 / cover design by the Brothers Quay  *** The Paris-based, Polish-born polymath Walerian Borowczyk (1923 – 2006) was an animator, writer and director of cinema, set designer, graphic designer, painter, lithographer, sculptor, and author. Above all, Borowczyk was a provocateur, expanding formal boundaries and challenging expectations. In this collection of his short fiction, Borowczyk's preoccupations with historical narrative, the resonance of inanimate objects, paroxysmal collisions between the beautiful and the cruel, all filigreed with cosmic absurdity, are set down in compact, elegant tales, translated here from the original French text. Throughout, as in all of his work, Borowczyk constructs a viewing apparatus to frame textured investigations into the flickering, animating forces of creation and annihilation. Origi