Voices from the Corridor
A Collection of erotic tales and visions
by Annemarie Ryders & van Rijn
The Voices from
the Corridor are a collection of erotic fast fiction, each one preceded
with a drawing as a highlight and key. The primary story element is the text,
with the illustrations and graphic compositions used as essential stylistic
devices to convey atmosphere as well as interpretation. So the book is really
an illustrated narrative and, but provides features from Comic and Graphic
Novel.
The strongly sexual color of the motifs show distinct
references to the scope of Pulp and Low Brow, not fetish fixed yet distantly
related to Stantoons, Hentai and other sex comics but much more extensive and
ambitioned in terms of the text.
The episodes depicted, at first seemingly disconnected
and isolated, take place in an uncertain time and space within the environment
of an erotic club of sorts of unclearly mysterious ambience. The narrator's
character is a hermaphrodite and one of the attractions of the place. She lives
and works there, as a woman mostly, and in the course of events finds herself
in a confusing plot of similarly vague definitude as her own gender.
The reader participates in the events like a voyeur.
He is presented by quite an abundant panorama, lush and exaggerated like a look
into a kaleidoscope. Yet, on the fringes of this view, places of increasing
opacification and darkening are noticeable.
Van Rijn's illustrations which Dian Hanson has
described as "…very pretty, very elegant, but fully explicit …", are
the starting point and pivot of Annemarie Ryder's tales. Behind the alias hides
a German author who has worked as a writer in various areas for more than ten
years and has received various awards. Humorous, ambivalent, full of surprising
turns and paired with an extraordinary fresh and relaxed depiction of sexuality,
Ryders here comes up with the lyrics to an enigmatically flowing tune, remnants
of a dream: Voices from the Corridor.