Raymond Roussel Locus Solus (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Locus SolusCondition: NewEAN: 9780714544564ISBN: 9780714544564Publisher: Calder Publications LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/24/2017Language: FrenchItem Height: 198mmItem Length: 128mmAuthor: Raymond RousselTranslator: Rupert Copeland CuninghamContributor: Rupert Copeland Cuningham (Translated by)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. 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionTopic: Classic FictionRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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