The Asylum of Dr. Caligari - James Morrow

Category: Fantasy, Humor, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Absurdist Art Speculative The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari World War I

Written by James Morrow
Read by Paul Boehmer
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged

If you think today’s profiteers are diabolical, blink again.

It is the summer of 1914. As the world teeters on the brink of the Great War, a callow American painter, Francis Wyndham, arrives at a renowned European insane asylum, where he begins offering art therapy under the auspices of Alessandro Caligari - sinister psychiatrist, maniacal artist, alleged sorcerer. And determined to turn the impending cataclysm to his financial advantage, Dr. Caligari will - for a price - allow governments to parade their troops past his masterpiece: a painting so mesmerizing it can incite entire regiments to rush headlong into battle.

The Asylum of Dr. Caligari is a timely tale that is by turns funny and erotic, tender and bayonet sharp - but ultimately emerges as a love letter to that mysterious, indispensable thing called art.

5 hrs and 18 mins
August 29, 2017