โ Roussel, Raymond
๐ Fiction
๐
2017
๐ New Directions
๐ English
โ 243 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Locus Solus
โ Scribed by Raymond Roussel
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 223 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
An intoxicating sui generis novel by "the greatest mesmerist of modern times" (Andr e 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 Solus is unlike anything else ever written.
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