Locus Solus
by Raymond Roussel
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Author: Raymond RousselEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1984-01
ISBN: 0714507342
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Riverrun Pr
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Book Review: A strange world of exhibits and the stories behind them
Summary: 5 Stars
Roussel's novels are giant puzzles, in which he describes images and stories that have a unique carnival logic. Punning relationships generate textual rebuses (rebi?), in a way that makes the reader aware of the book as a mechanism, but Roussel gives too few clues to really understand it. In Locus Solus, Roussel gives a tour of the museum garden of an eccentric millionaire, who, like Roussel himself, collects with a frenetic and psychedelic rationalism. Please, Riverrun Press, reprint this book.
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