HENRIK AESHNA

Tsunami bOOKS, 2011

WELCOME to this

KLEPTOMANIAC HALLUCINEMA

where all the eyes will be stolen

"I've come back not to save anyone at all

but to mix it all up & BOOM !"

( henrik aeshna, Naked Beans )

"The person of the King is inviolable and sacred"

( 1792 French Constitution act )

"I'm too drunk to fuck"

( Plato, Dialogues )

In Marseille Blues - exquisZOphrenic corpse with 50 characters + a zucchini gratin recipe, Henrik Aeshna the pickpo(ck)et of Notre-Dame and son of Halley's comet and a prostitute, both outrages and ravages all the traits of the so-called world of appearances. This infamously chaotic anti-mirror is the triumph of absolute anarchy, the final transgression ; it is also one of the most remarkable examples of some key notions we can find in Monsieur Aeshna's "cannibal pyromaniac poetry": SchizoPoP manifesto, cadavre exquiszophrène, objets-volés, black-outs, erotic apocalypse, incest of the possible-with-the-impossible, zoophilia of worlds and seemingly disconnected realities…...

Here poetic terrorism and Rimbaud's "total derangement of the senses" attain their most radical and unimaginable consequences. You will come into the alchemical womb of the beast and witness all the forbidden delights of chaos, horror and ecstasy, a dreamlike tunnel of disturbingly hallucinating juxtapositions in which the entire world is turned completely upside down, as well as all existing signs, linguistic and moral codes."

As bitingly disturbing as a tsunami of humour noir possessed by Prévert's Wise Child, here this unforgivable trickster kidnaps and mixes up all identities and discourses, genders and roles, the banal and the sublime, time and space, and in the manner of a profane pirate of signs he carnavandalizes the reality catwalk, so deforming/transforming the masked ball of our Babylon of information into a real grotesque orgy, an absurd and genial schizoPoP Satyricon - the perfect crime!

Marseille Blues is the voodoo punk drag version of La Marseillaise with shocking whore-red-painted nails brewing on the bitchbox in an overnoisy blind pig bar in La Plaine, with the Chappaqua cowboy spiking the punch bowl with acid pot & pills. Be a Good Frenchman and send this irresponsible raving mad looter to either a mental house or to the guillotine, before he secretly replaces street plaques and school manuals for 'gardens of aberrations where the flowers bloom like beautiful fires!'.

Tsunami bOOKS ( PARIS )

* Launched with the English version " Marseille Blues / Good Night Cinderella - cadavre exquiszophrenic with 50 characters + a zucchini gratin recipe + A traditional multi-tiered iced fruit cake featuring the ‘language of flowers’ ", offered as a wedding gift to Prince William & Kate Middleton!