Locus Solus
Author(s): Raymond Roussel
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 Solus is unlike anything else ever written."
Product Information
General Fields
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- : New Directions Publishing Corporation
- : New Directions Publishing Corporation
- : 28 February 2017
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Raymond Roussel
- : Paperback / softback