GÉBLER, Ernest. Shall I Eat You Now?
GÉBLER, Ernest. Shall I Eat You Now? London: Macmillan. 1969. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the photographic dust jacket. A near fine copy, cloth clean, the binding tight and perhaps a trifle rolled at bottom edge. Small bookseller label to front pastedown. Contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped (25s net) with one or two tiny nicks and closed tears, spine panel a trifle wrinkled.
A social and sexual fantasy of sorts by the Czech-Irish writer. Gébler was a Czech-Irish ‘emotional Dubliner’, married to Edna O’Brien for over a decade—fictionalised in her Country Girls trilogy—father of two sons called Karl (such was his fascination with Karl Marx), and ‘phony’ according to one of them. He casts a troubled and troublesome figure in literature—his protagonist here is socially miscellaneous, much like himself. The novel was adapted from his stage play in 1967, entitled ‘Call Me Daddy’, then to the screen in 1970 entitled ‘Hoffman’ starring Peter Sellars.
GÉBLER, Ernest. Shall I Eat You Now? London: Macmillan. 1969. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the photographic dust jacket. A near fine copy, cloth clean, the binding tight and perhaps a trifle rolled at bottom edge. Small bookseller label to front pastedown. Contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped (25s net) with one or two tiny nicks and closed tears, spine panel a trifle wrinkled.
A social and sexual fantasy of sorts by the Czech-Irish writer. Gébler was a Czech-Irish ‘emotional Dubliner’, married to Edna O’Brien for over a decade—fictionalised in her Country Girls trilogy—father of two sons called Karl (such was his fascination with Karl Marx), and ‘phony’ according to one of them. He casts a troubled and troublesome figure in literature—his protagonist here is socially miscellaneous, much like himself. The novel was adapted from his stage play in 1967, entitled ‘Call Me Daddy’, then to the screen in 1970 entitled ‘Hoffman’ starring Peter Sellars.
GÉBLER, Ernest. Shall I Eat You Now? London: Macmillan. 1969. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the photographic dust jacket. A near fine copy, cloth clean, the binding tight and perhaps a trifle rolled at bottom edge. Small bookseller label to front pastedown. Contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped (25s net) with one or two tiny nicks and closed tears, spine panel a trifle wrinkled.
A social and sexual fantasy of sorts by the Czech-Irish writer. Gébler was a Czech-Irish ‘emotional Dubliner’, married to Edna O’Brien for over a decade—fictionalised in her Country Girls trilogy—father of two sons called Karl (such was his fascination with Karl Marx), and ‘phony’ according to one of them. He casts a troubled and troublesome figure in literature—his protagonist here is socially miscellaneous, much like himself. The novel was adapted from his stage play in 1967, entitled ‘Call Me Daddy’, then to the screen in 1970 entitled ‘Hoffman’ starring Peter Sellars.