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PublisherDeep Vellum Publishing
ISBN-100916583309
ISBN-139780916583309
eBay Product ID (ePID)322240
Product Key Features
Publication Year1989
TopicGeneral
Book TitleLocos : a Comedy of Gestures
Number of Pages206 Pages
LanguageEnglish
FeaturesRevised
GenreFiction
AuthorFelipe Alfau
FormatHardcover
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN88-014975
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal813/.52
Designed byMcCarthy, Mary
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisThe interconnected stories that form this novel take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the 1001 Arabian Nights and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their young author. For them, he complains, reality is what fiction is to real people. First published in 1936 and long neglected, this elegantly inventive novel anticipates works like Pale Fire and One Hundred Years of Solitude. In Locos, Felipe Alfau creates a mercurial dreamscape in which the characters the eccentric and sometimes criminal crowd around Toledo s Cafe of the Crazy wrench free of his control, invade unrelated stories, and even usurp each other s identities.", The interconnected stories that form this novel take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the 1001 Arabian Nights and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their young author. "For them," he complains, "reality is what fiction is to real people."First published in 1936 and long neglected, this elegantly inventive novel anticipates works like Pale Fire and One Hundred Years of Solitude. In Locos, Felipe Alfau creates a mercurial dreamscape in which the characters--the eccentric and sometimes criminal crowd around Toledo's Cafe of the Crazy--wrench free of his control, invade unrelated stories, and even usurp each other's identities., The interconnected stories that form this novel take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the 1001 Arabian Nights and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their young author. "For them," he complains, "reality is what fiction is to real people." First published in 1936 and long neglected, this elegantly inventive novel anticipates works like Pale Fire and One Hundred Years of Solitude. In Locos, Felipe Alfau creates a mercurial dreamscape in which the characters--the eccentric and sometimes criminal crowd around Toledo's Cafe of the Crazy--wrench free of his control, invade unrelated stories, and even usurp each other's identities.
LC Classification NumberPS3501.L45L6 1988
