Locus Solus
Raymond Roussel$16.96
$19.95
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 03/28/2017
ISBN: 9780811226455
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/24/2016