Raymond Roussel

Locus Solus

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Cantarel, a scholarly scientist, whose enormous wealth imposes no limits upon his prolific ingenuity, is taking a group of visitors on a tour of &quote;Locus Solus&quote;, 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… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-7145-4654-4
EAN: 9780714546544
Produktnummer: 35588663
Verlag: Alma Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 0 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'741 KB

Über den Autor

Raymond Roussel (Paris, January 20, 1877 - Palermo, July 14, 1933) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, chess enthusiast, neurasthenic, and drug addict. Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups within 20th-century French literature, including the Surrealists, Oulipo, and the authors of the nouveau roman.