Fetus. Tale from the Metaworld - Mary Blindflowers

Fetus is a novel of knotted viscera and creative innards, a metaphor for latent possibilities and dreamlike foreknowledge that can never fully emerge, because it is impossible to realise.

Adamo is an outsider who rejects conformity and power, consciously choosing to remain at the margins of society. He lives in a curious condition: he cannot see himself in the mirror, as if his identity has been taken from him, and he converses with Bred, an enigmatic presence that inhabits his dreams and his consciousness.

After moving into a new apartment, he discovers a small hole in the floor through which he observes the shop below. That fissure soon becomes an unsettling passage between reality and nightmare: he witnesses disturbing scenes, dark dealings, and apparitions that call into question the very nature of the world around him.

As dreams become populated by "subnullists," automatons subjugated to the system, Adamo is forced to confront an increasingly elusive truth: what he sees-is it real, or is it the product of his mind?

Black and white illustrations by the author

Mary Blindflowers:

She coined the movement "Destrutturalismo" ("Destructuralism"), whose ideas are expressed in the blog Destrutturalismo and in the eponymous journal. She has held several art exhibitions and published essays, poetry, novels, and plays. In 2019, she won first prize in drawing at the Henry Moore Foundation.