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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Its October 1944. During a brief respite from the aerial bombardment of London, Sebastian Wigrum absconds from his small flat and disappears into the fog for a walk in the Unreal City. This is our first and only encounter with the enigmatic man we come to discover decades later through more than one hundred everyday objects he has left behind. Wigrums bequest is a meticulously catalogued collection of the profoundly ordinary: a camera, some loose teeth, candies and keys, soap, bits of string, hazelnuts, and a handkerchief. Moving through the inventory artifact to artifact, story to story, we become immersed in a dreamlike narrative bricolage determined as much by the objects museological presentation as by the tender and idiosyncratic mania of Wigrums impulse to collect them.With its traces of Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Georges Perec, Daniel Cantys graphically arresting Wigrum explores the limits of the postmodern novel. Having absorbed the logic of lists and the principles of classification systems, the Wigrumian narrative teeters on the boundary between fact and fiction, on the uncertain edge of the real and the unreal.Readers venturing into Sebastian Wigrums cabinet of curiosities must abide only the following maxim: If I can believe all the stories I am told, so can you. Catnip for bibliophiles, collectors, designers, and museum lovers. Marginalia give the reader a meta-text, wonderful illustrations, and a prize-winning design. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780889227781