Locus Solus
Roussel, Raymond/ Cunningham, Rupert Copeland (Translator)
ISBN 10: 081122645X ISBN 13: 9780811226455
Published by New Directions, 2017
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reissue edition. 251 pages. 8.00x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # 081122645X
Synopsis:
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.
About the Author: Raymond Roussel was born into a wealthy Parisian family in 1877 and died in a hotel room in Palermo in 1933. His works have influenced such artists and writers as Marcel Duchamp (“Roussel showed me the way”), Alberto Giacometti, Kenneth Koch, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Leonardo Sciascia, Paul Auster, Georges Perec, and Jim Jarmusch.
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Title: Locus Solus
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Brand New