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Item Details
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LOCUS SOLUS
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| By: |
Raymond Roussel, Rupert Copeland Cuningham (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1847492738 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781847492739 |
| Publisher: |
ALMA BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
21 June, 2012 |
| Series: |
Oneworld Modern Classics |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
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 innocence and extravagance is unlike anything in the literature of the twentieth century. |
| Synopsis: |
Cantarel, a scholarly scientist, whose enormous 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 humans 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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Alma Classics |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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