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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Exquisite Corpse
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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)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ultimo, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Ultimo Press , 2023 .
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      Extent: 336p.
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      • Published 7th June 2023
      ISBN: 9781761151330

Works about this Work

Book Review : Exquisite Corpse, Marija Peričić Nanci Nott , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , July 2023;

— Review of Exquisite Corpse Marija Pericic , 2023 single work novel

'This entropic un-romance is about control: losing it, wanting it, taking it.'

Marija Peričić's Novel Exquisite Corpse Tells the Grisly Story of Carl Tänzler Who Lived with a Corpse Nicola Heath , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , November 2023;

— Review of Exquisite Corpse Marija Pericic , 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.' 

Marija Peričić's Novel Exquisite Corpse Tells the Grisly Story of Carl Tänzler Who Lived with a Corpse Nicola Heath , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , November 2023;

— Review of Exquisite Corpse Marija Pericic , 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.' 

Book Review : Exquisite Corpse, Marija Peričić Nanci Nott , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , July 2023;

— Review of Exquisite Corpse Marija Pericic , 2023 single work novel

'This entropic un-romance is about control: losing it, wanting it, taking it.'

Last amended 8 Feb 2023 12:49:19
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    Scandinavia, Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1930
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