Description
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 Solusis unlike anything else ever written.
Author: Raymond Roussel
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 03/28/2017
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780811226455
ISBN10: 081122645X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Magical Realism
- Fiction | Absurdist