LOCOS: A COMEDY OF GESTURES - Softcover

Alfau, Felipe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679728465 ISBN 13: 9780679728467

Publisher: Vintage, 1990

Synopsis

Tells the interrelated stories of a group of eccentric criminals, beggars and confidence artists who frequent a Toledo cafe

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The interconnected stories that form this novel take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the 1001 Arabian Nights and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their young "author". First published in 1936 and long neglected, this elegantly inventive novel anticipates works like Pale Fire and One Hundred Years of Solitude. In Locos, Felipe Alfau creates a mercurial dreamscape in which the characters - the eccentric, sometimes criminal, habitues of Toledo's Cafe of the Crazy - wrench free of authorial control, invade one another's stories, and even turn into one another.

About the Author:

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a short-story writer, bestselling novelist, essayist, and a social and art critic. A member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, she was the author of Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Venice Observed, and Birds of America, among other books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0679728465
• ISBN 13: 9780679728467
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206