Locus Solus - Couverture souple

Roussel, Raymond

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.

A propos du livre

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081122645X
• ISBN 13: 9780811226455
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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