A Sussex parson deep in gambling debts meets his exact double, a highwayman, in a wood; one of them is found dead, the other rides back into the parson's life, and no court can prove which man he is — and around that, a set of tales about ghosts, obsession and the thinness of a personality. Julian Hawthorne grew up among Emerson, Thoreau and Melville, produced some fifty books, and later went to prison for mail fraud over a mining stock. He wrote identity as something that comes loose. Fifty-eight plates, among them Munch and Eastman Johnson, run from 1783 to 1912 and dwell on interiors, kinsmen and uncertain selves, the very ground these tales of doubled identity occupy.
David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales : Strange Cases from the English Records
Écrit par Julian Hawthorne
