In The Exquisite Corpse, Kaspar explores sex, surrealism, hypnagogic imagery, wax sculptures, Mass Opinion, Nazi art, hypnosis and madness. He chronicles the bloody circumstances of the collapse of the Serapion Brotherhood. In addition, he writes about his obsession with crazy passion and his tireless search for a disappearing woman. The book is set in London, Paris and Munich in the 40s and 50s. As in The Arabian Nightmare and The Limits of the Visible, the central theme of Robert Irvine's new novel is the strange power of the imagination.