Isbn: 9780714544564 - locus solus: raymond roussel (9 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Translator(s): Cuningham, Rupert Copeland. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. . . 2017. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Only edition in printBased, 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.…

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnRaymond RousselKlappentextrnrnBased, 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 ext.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Locus Solus | Raymond Roussel | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2017 | Alma Books Ltd | EAN 9780714544564 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.