Visions and Temptations

Description

Spurning carnal desire and earthly temptations all his life, the mystic Othlo is now in the care of his brother monks including the odious and semen-filled Wolkbart. Despite the spare walls which surround him, he frolics with Holy Dionysius in the Garden of Head-bearers (each carries his own head for eternity), descends from the island of Heaven, visits a brothel patronized by fallen angels, and witnesses the souls of the once gluttoinous wealthy fighting over scraps of rotting crabmeat in a ditch in Hell.

The third and final book in a series about mankind’s desire to conquer nature, Visions and Temptations follows Awake and Sublunar. In each novel, a great if imperfect mind facesis failed by the inevitable demise of the body.

Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Harald Voetmann,Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen (Translator)
Published: 08/19/2025
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811229807
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 0.40″ H x 7.92″ L x 5.30″ W

About the Author
Voetmann, Harald: – Nominated for the Nordic Council Prize, the Danish author Harald Voetmann (b. 1978) has written novels, short stories, poetry and a monograph on the Roman poet Sulpicia. He also translates classical Latin literature, notably Petronius and Juvenal. Voetmann has completed a trilogy of historical novels: Awake records the wheezing monologue of ancient Italian writer Pliny the Elder; Sublunar centers on sixteenth-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe; Visions and Temptations introduces the eleventh-century German mystic Othlo of St. Emmeram.Ottosen, Johanne Sorgenfri: – Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen is a Danish translator born in 1986. She currently lives in Copenhagen where she also works as an illustrator and literary editor.