Locus Solus - Couverture souple

Roussel, Raymond

 
9780811226455: Locus Solus
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 081122645X ISBN 13 : 9780811226455
Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017

Synopsis

The wealthy scientist Martial Canterel guides a group of visitors through his expansive estate, Locus Solus, where he displays his various deranged inventions, each more spectacular than the last. First, he introduces a machine propelled by the weather, which constructs a mosaic out of varying hues of human teeth, then shows a hairless cat charged with a powerful electric battery, and next a bizarre theater in which corpses are reanimated with a special serum to enact the most important movements of their past lives. Wondrously imaginative and narrated with Roussel's deadpan wit, Locus Solusis unlike anything else ever written.

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À propos de l'auteur

Raymond Roussel was born into a wealthy Parisian family in 1877 and died in a hotel room in Palermo in 1933. His works have influenced such artists and writers as Marcel Duchamp ("Roussel showed me the way"), Alberto Giacometti, Kenneth Koch, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Leonardo Sciascia, Paul Auster, Georges Perec, and Jim Jarmusch.

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Éditeur
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
081122645X
ISBN 13 
9780811226455
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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