Imaginary Reading List: Archimboldi
Kindlifresser, an unfinished novella by Benno Von Archimboldi about the legendary “Child-Eater of Bern.” Given up by the great author after page fifty due to a “geometrical uncertainty,” according to Archimboldi’s own faint marginalia. What the “uncertainty” was and why it prevented the completion of this compellingly horrifying fairy tale remain mysteries. [The plot seems to [...]
