Основной контент книги The Decadent Sportsman
Text

Book duration 200 pages

0+

The Decadent Sportsman

authors
Alex Martin,
Medlar Lucan
$13.66

About the book

A decadent history of sport with an alternative olympic games. From their offices above a boxing gym in Old Havana, Medlar Lucan and Durian Gray have set aside their congenital lethargy to begin a glittering and fantastical new project: The Decadent Sportsman. «We are inspired in part by the magnificent wastefulness of the preparations for the London Olympic Games, exactly the kind of futile extravagance that Caligula or Nero would have adored, and in part by the pungent odours of sweat and bruised leather that waft up through the ventilation grillles in the floorboards from the boxing ring below.» This orchid-scented duo bring their wit and monstrous imaginations to play across the entire history of sport, with chapters ranging from the Greek athletic ideal and its perversions to the Nazi Olympics of 1936 and the use of drugs, alcohol and visionary states of being. The book also includes the full text of their proposal to the IOC for a new and more impressive Alternative Olympic Games, with events such as voyeurism, dentistry, Russian roulette, cocktail mixing, posing, couture, hairdressing, mendacity, bohemianism, architectural patisserie, and the roasting and carving of meat.

Log in, to rate the book and leave a review
Book Alex Martin, Medlar Lucan et al. «The Decadent Sportsman» — read a free excerpt of the book online. Leave comments and reviews, vote for your favorites.
Age restriction:
0+
Release date on Litres:
08 November 2024
Volume:
200 p.
ISBN:
9781909232488
Publisher:
Copyright holder:
Bookwire
Audio
Средний рейтинг 4,7 на основе 48 оценок
Audio
Средний рейтинг 4,2 на основе 883 оценок
Draft
Средний рейтинг 4,8 на основе 336 оценок
Text
Средний рейтинг 4,9 на основе 202 оценок
Text, audio format available
Средний рейтинг 4,8 на основе 1196 оценок
Audio
Средний рейтинг 4,2 на основе 35 оценок
Text, audio format available
Средний рейтинг 4,7 на основе 7060 оценок
Audio
Средний рейтинг 4,8 на основе 5114 оценок
Audio
Средний рейтинг 4,4 на основе 14 оценок
Text
Средний рейтинг 0 на основе 0 оценок
Text
Средний рейтинг 0 на основе 0 оценок
Text
Средний рейтинг 0 на основе 0 оценок
Text
Средний рейтинг 0 на основе 0 оценок