The Eye of Goliath
Will be published approx. on 8. October 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-80568-036-9 (ISBN)
Description
In this deliriously inventive twist on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Argentine Diego Muzzio infuses classic gothic atmosphere with disturbingly modern psychological horror.
In an old sanatorium on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Dr Edward Pierce develops experimental therapies to treat patients traumatised by the First World War. Late one night, he receives a visitor who asks him to take on a bizarre case: David Bradley, an engineer who was sent to inspect the conditions of a lighthouse on a desolate island in southern Argentina. This once rational, disciplined man returned completely mute, his body overwhelmed by a single compulsion: to swim and swim, in any environment, to the point of total exhaustion.
As Pierce becomes fixated on Bradley's diary, a macabre record of his increasing derangement, he explores strange new treatments in which the lines between doctor and patient begin dangerously to blur.
In an old sanatorium on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Dr Edward Pierce develops experimental therapies to treat patients traumatised by the First World War. Late one night, he receives a visitor who asks him to take on a bizarre case: David Bradley, an engineer who was sent to inspect the conditions of a lighthouse on a desolate island in southern Argentina. This once rational, disciplined man returned completely mute, his body overwhelmed by a single compulsion: to swim and swim, in any environment, to the point of total exhaustion.
As Pierce becomes fixated on Bradley's diary, a macabre record of his increasing derangement, he explores strange new treatments in which the lines between doctor and patient begin dangerously to blur.
Reviews / Votes
Reads like a classic but with everything that classic books were unable to articulate: mental health, war trauma, the inexorability of violence... Impossible to stop reading. It has all the fascinating tension of great literature -- Mariana Enriquez, author of 'Our Share of Night' A literary feat - precise, and meticulous, with nods to classic authors and multiple layers of interpretation. It's a majestic descent into pure horror -- Federico Falco, author of 'The Plains' A narrative tour de force of echoes and doubles * La Nacion * A revelation of style and form that probes many contemporary issues in spite of being set in the first decades of the 20th century * El Cultural * This might be the closest I've come to reading a cursed book, in the best way possible. Truly disturbing. At times it feels like reading a forgotten classic, and at others like something that wasn't meant to be read. It genuinely gave me nightmares -- Liam Higginson, author of 'The Hill in the Dark Grove'More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
367 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80568-036-9 (9781805680369)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Diego Muzzio was born in Buenos Aires and currently lives in France. An author of poetry and fiction for children and adults, he has won several literary awards, including the Premio Hispanoamericano de Poesia Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and the 2023 Fundacion Medife Filba Award for The Eye of Goliath, which is his first novel.
Content
I. The Psychotic Swimmer 11
II. Diary of the Engineer David Bradley 41
III. Chaos and Night 129
II. Diary of the Engineer David Bradley 41
III. Chaos and Night 129