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Dr. Caresco returns in Caresco, Superman (1904), in which the brilliant but mad scientist rules the body-shaped island of Eucrasia whose inhabitants have been transformed--"improved"--by a variety of advanced surgical techniques. The natives are addicted to sensual pleasures, subservient to the will of Caresco, whom they call the "Superman", for fear that he will castrate them--or worse.
André Couvreur (1863-1944), himself a medical doctor, depicts
Caresco's surgical exploits in an explicit, even flamboyant, fashion that
harks back to the notorious Marquis de Sade. In spite of his flagrant
disapproval of Caresco's morality and alleged madness, Couvreur remains
willing to give his views serious consideration, and to explore their
potential in a manner that refuses to write them off merely because they
are tainted with megalomaniac delusion.
Cover by Mandy
Published by Black Coat Press in April 2014
ISBN: 978-1-61227-254-2
