โ Donald Collins
๐ Fiction
๐
2019
๐ English
โ 111 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
On Elegance While Sleeping
โ Scribed by Emilio Lascano Tegui
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 72 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The first English translation of the self-proclaimed "Viscount" Emilio Lascano Tegui--a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, and a larger-than-life eccentric in his own right--On Elegance While Sleeping is the deliciously macabre novel, part Maldoror and part Dorian Gray , that established its author's reputation as a renegade hero of Argentine literature. It tells the story, in the form of a surreal diary, of a lonely, syphilitic French soldier, who--after too many brothels and disappointments--returns from Africa longing for a world with more elegance. He promptly falls in love with a goat, and recalls the time, after a childhood illness, when his hair fell out and grew back orange--a phenomenon his doctor attributed to the cultivation of carrots in a neighboring town. Disturbing, provocative, and mesmerizing, On Elegance While Sleeping charts the decline of a man unraveling due to his own oversensitivity--and...
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