Locus Solus

di Raymond Roussel (Autore)

Rupert Copeland Cuningham (Traduttore)

Alma Books Ltd, 2017

Only edition in print Based, like the earlier Impressions of Africa, on uniquely eccentric principles of composition, this book invites the reader to enter a world which in its innocence and extravagance is unlike anything in the literature of the twentieth century. Cantarel, a scholarly scientist, whose enormous wealth imposes no limits upon his prolific ingenuity, is taking a group of visitors on a tour of "Locus Solus", his secluded estate near Paris. One by one he introduces, demonstrates and expounds the discoveries and inventions of his fertile, encyclopaedic mind. An African mud-sculpture representing a naked child; a road-mender's tool which, when activated by the weather, creates a mosaic of human teeth; a vast aquarium in which humans can breathe and in which a depilated cat is seen stimulating the partially decomposed head of Danton to fresh flights of oratory. By each item in Cantarel's exhibition there hangs a tale - a tale such as only that esteemed genius Roussel could tell. As the inventions become more elaborate, the richness and brilliance of the author's stories grow to match them; the flow of his imagination becomes a flood and the reader is swept along in a torrent of wonder and hilarity.

• Autore: Raymond Roussel
• Traduttore: Rupert Copeland Cuningham
• Editore: Alma Books Ltd
• Anno: 2017
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 224 p.
• Dimensioni: 198 x 128 mm
• Peso: 250 gr.
• EAN: 9780714544564

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