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'He pulled up his stool and looked me over carefully, lightly touching my skin here and there.
‘Because, my sweet girl, you are so very beautiful and that beauty deserves to be recorded for the world to see.’
'Beautiful but impoverished Lina Dahlstrom is dying of tuberculosis and it seems that no one can save her. All hope is lost until an eccentric doctor, Carl Dance, becomes enthralled with Lina’s charms and vows to do everything in his power to cure her. But when the illness inevitably claims Lina’s life, Dance’s obsession with her only grows and so begins a mad and criminal scheme to bring her back from beyond the grave and claim her as his own forever.
'Set in Stockholm in 1930 and based on true events, Exquisite Corpse is a story about the madness and horror of a romance that knows no bounds.' (Publication summary)
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Marija Peričić's Novel Exquisite Corpse Tells the Grisly Story of Carl Tänzler Who Lived with a Corpse
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , November 2023;
— Review of Exquisite Corpse 2023 single work novel'Carl Tänzler was a German radiographer who, in the 1930s, lived for seven years with the corpse of the woman he loved.'
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Marija Peričić's Novel Exquisite Corpse Tells the Grisly Story of Carl Tänzler Who Lived with a Corpse
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , November 2023;
— Review of Exquisite Corpse 2023 single work novel'Carl Tänzler was a German radiographer who, in the 1930s, lived for seven years with the corpse of the woman he loved.'
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Stockholm,
cSweden,cScandinavia, Western Europe, Europe,
- 1930
