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Locus Solus
Engelsk Paperback
Locus Solus
Engelsk Paperback

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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. 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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780714544564
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0714544566
Udg. Dato:
24 aug 2017
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
198mm
Højde:
130mm
Forlag:
Alma Books Ltd
Oplagsdato:
24 aug 2017
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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