Dimensions
155 x 230 x 43mm
What price lust?
"I told you," said Gaillard, upon being pressed once more for information, "all I know is that he was found by his scribe. And that his genitals were gone."
"Gone!" I exclaimed.
"Not there. Vanished."
"Somebody stole them?"
"A nun," Othon remarked, unleashing a shout of laughter.
Raymond Maillot is a notary employed in an investigation into sorcery in Avignon in the 1320s. He is pulled between a life of irresponsible pleasures and a life dedicated to the church. His journey of self-discovery, however, begins with a severed penis . . .
'The Notary' is a tantalisingly cryptic tale of dismemberment, debauchery and spiritualism in the grand tradition of Umberto Eco's 'The Name Of The Rose'.