Locus Solus - Couverture souple

Roussel, Raymond

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847490719 ISBN 13 : 9781847490711

Editeur : Alma Classics, 2008

Synopsis

Based, like the earlier "Impressions of Africa", on uniquely eccentric principles of composition, this book invites the reader to enter a world which in its innocense and extravagence is unlike anything in the literature of the twentieth century.Cantarel, a scholarly scientist, whose enourmous wealth imposes no limits upon his prolific ingenuity is taking a group of visitors on a tour of "Locus Solus", his secluded estate near Paris. One by one he introduces, demonstrates and expounds the discoveries and inventions of his fertile, encyclopaedic mind: An African mud-sculpture representing a naked child; a road-mender's tool which, when activated by the weather, creates a mosaic of human teeth; a vast aquarium in which human's can breathe and in which a depilated cat is seen stimulating the partially decomposed head of Danton to fresh flights of oratory. By each item in Cantarel's exhibition there hangs a tale - a tale such as only that esteemed genius Roussel could tell.As the inventions become more elaborate, the richness and brilliance of the author's stories grow to match them; the flow of his imagination becomes a flood and the reader is swept along in a torrent of wonder and hilarity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Raymond Roussel (Paris, January 20, 1877 - Palermo, July 14, 1933) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, chess enthusiast, neurasthenic, and drug addict. Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups within 20th century French literature, including the Surrealists, Oulipo, and the authors of the nouveau roman.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Alma Classics
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847490719
• ISBN 13: 9781847490711
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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