Locus Solus [Advance Readers' Copy]
Raymond Roussel; translated by Rupert Copeland Cunningham
Language: English
Published by New Directions, 2017
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Advanced Readers Copy of an Uncorrected Proof of the New Directions Paperback Original in 2017. [This English revised edition first published by Alma Classics Ltd in 2008.] Pristine, clean & tight copy, unread in Fine condition. "Genius in its pure state. The Proust of dreams."---Jean Cocteau. "There is hidden in Roussel something so strong, so ominous, and so pregnant with the darkness of the 'infinite spaces' that frightened Pascal, that one feels the need for some sort of personal protective equipment when one reads him."---John Ashbery.
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- Title
- Locus Solus [Advance Readers' Copy]
- Author
- Raymond Roussel; translated by Rupert Copeland Cunningham
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 081122645X
- ISBN 13
- 9780811226455
An intoxicating sui generis novel by “the greatest mesmerist of modern times” (André Breton)
The wealthy scientist Martial Canterel guides a group of visitors through his expansive estate, Locus Solus, where he displays his various deranged inventions, each more spectacular than the last. First, he introduces a machine propelled by the weather, which constructs a mosaic out of varying hues of human teeth, then shows a hairless cat charged with a powerful electric battery, and next a bizarre theater in which corpses are reanimated with a special serum to enact the most important movements of their past lives. Wondrously imaginative and narrated with Roussel’s deadpan wit,Locus Solusis unlike anything else ever written.
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