Locos: A Comedy of Gestures - Hardcover

Alfau, Felipe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0916583309 ISBN 13: 9780916583309

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 1989

Synopsis

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. “For them,” he complains, “reality is what fiction is to real people.”

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 and sometimes criminal crowd around Toledo’s Cafe of the Crazy―wrench free of his control, invade unrelated stories, and even usurp each other’s identities.

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: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0916583309
• ISBN 13: 9780916583309
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 206