The Brian Aldiss Collection - The Malacia Tapestry

A complex picaresque novel now reissued as part of the Brian Aldiss Collection. A picaresque novel which attempts to capture something of the mysterious world of G. B. Tiepolo's etchings. The down-at-heel actor, de Chirolo, sees everything in the embalmed city state of Malacia as art or artifice, until reality catches up with him...