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Cretan Teat
Brian W Aldiss

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Cretan Teat

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Tags: Science Fiction, Lang:en

Summary

Cretan Teat is a bawdy novel, telling the extraordinary tale a Byzantine painting of the Virgin Mary breastfeeding the infant Jesus.

This false icon gets adopted by the people – and so becomes instrumental in the downfall of mankind.

This is a story where the narrator – the author – is regularly caught with his trousers down.

It is at once funny and important, a post-modern text reminiscent of Pirandello, where sexcapades brush shoulders with the end of the world.