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Locus Solus

Locus Solus
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  • Срок доставки: до 20.01.2025
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  • Доставка "Locus Solus" по всему миру: США, Германия, Польша, Израиль, Англия и др.

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  • Издательство: Alma Books COMMIS
  • Язык: английский
  • Страна изготовления: GB
  • Страниц: 224
  • Переплет: Мягкая обложка
  • EAN: 9780714544564
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.