37:2/3 Autumn 1991

RIKKI DUCORNET

Bazar

Rikki Ducornet’s short story “Bazar,” first published in the Autumn 1991 issue (reprinted in The Complete Butcher’s Stories, Dalkey Archive, 1996), is shaped by the undercurrents of repressed homosexuality, seduction, and sadism that pervade much of Ducornet’s fiction. An odd combination of mid-twentieth century Francophone scholarship and the history of magic distinguish “Bazar” from the more realistic fiction published by Chicago Review in the early 1990s—by Ha Jan and Aleksander Hemon, for example. Ducornet, the author of two collections of short stories and seven novels, including The Jade Cabinet (finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award), as well as a prominent illustrator, currently teaches at the University of Denver.

[KM, 2006]

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