{"product_id":"on-elegance-while-sleeping-9781564786043","title":"On Elegance While Sleeping","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I write out of pure voluptuousness, I confess.\" 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. Disturbing, provocative, and mesmerizing, \"On Elegance While Sleeping\" charts the decline of man unraveling due to his own oversensitivity--and drifting closer and closer to committing a murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781564786043\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.14h x 5.52w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Best Translated Book Award - Finalist\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emilio Lascano Tegui","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659935510684,"sku":"9781564786043","price":11.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b4f494da-699f-4def-8e66-fc006fdbcf03.jpg?v=1603895724","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/on-elegance-while-sleeping-9781564786043","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}