Exquisite Corpse - Couverture souple

Irwin, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099598515 ISBN 13 : 9780099598510

Editeur : Vintage, 1996

Synopsis

Set in London, Paris and Munich in the 1940s and 50s, this story is narrated by Caspar who details his investigations into sex, surrealism, hypnagogic imagery, waxworks, mass observation, Nazi art and mesmerism. Above all, he recounts his obsessive quest for a vanishing woman.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

'Robert Irwin's novel about English surrealism is funny and profound and hugely satisfying.' A.S.Byatt in The Sunday Times Books of the Year 'Exquisite Corpse is among the most adventurous, ambitious and daring novels published so far this decade.' Nicholas Royle in Time Out 'Robert Irwin's spectacular intense novel of love and madness among the provincial British surrealist movement works all the better because authentic factual detail is woven so effectively into the fancy.' Roz Kaveney in The New Statesman & Society 'The final chapter of the novel reads like a realistic epilogue to the book, but may instead be a hypnogogic illusion, which in turn casts doubt on many other events in the novel. Is Caroline merely a typist from Putney or the very vampire of Surrealism? It's for the reader to decide.' Steven Moore in The Washington Post 'Robert Irwin is a master of the surreal imagination. Historical figures such as Aleister Crowley and Paul Eluard vie with fictional characters in an extended surrealist game, which, like the movement itself, is full of astonishing insights and hilarious pretensions. Superb.' Ian Critchley in The Sunday Times 'There's something tremendously soothing about this hysterical novel, as if the world destroys and remakes itself more often than we think.' Susan Salter Reynolds in The Los Angeles Times 'It is a rapid read in which the deftly drawn mood and perfect-pitch dialogue function as a sleight-of-hand allowing the plot to spring its surprises with flair.' Peter Plagens in Bookforum

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099598515
• ISBN 13: 9780099598510
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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