When I Think of My Missing Head

Couve, Adolfo

ISBN 10: 1943813744 / ISBN 13: 9781943813742

Published by Snuggly Books, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: When I Think of My Missing Head
• Publisher: Snuggly Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1943813744
• ISBN 13: 9781943813742
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Camondo, a painter, wakes up one morning in his studio with his head missing, it having been yanked from his body the night before by Marieta, a model. This is a punishment from the gods, who have already taken away his artistic talent. Now, mysteriously resurrected but not quite intact, Camondo wanders about a seaside town wearing a Franciscan habit stolen from church in an attempt to disguise himself.

Published posthumously, When I Think of My Missing Head, by the Chilean painter and novelist Adolfo Couve, here translated for the first time into English by Jessica Sequeira, is a phantasmagorical literary experiment, an existential puzzle with pieces that fit together by secret logic. With tones that are gothic and surrealist, symbolist and magical, this is a highly original work of terror and fantasia.