Locos

A Comedy of Gestures

AvFelipe Alfau

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

Del i serien American Literature (Dalkey Archive)

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Beskrivning

The interconnected stones that form Felipe Alfau's novel LOCOS 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; they simply love it and make for it against ray almost heroic opposition" Alfau's "comedy of gestures" -- a mercurial dreamscape of the eccentric, sometimes criminal, habitues of Toledo's Cafe of the Crazy -- was written in English and first published in 1936, favorably reviewed for The Nation by Mary McCarthy, as she recounts here in her Afterword, then long neglected.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1998-01-29
Mått:141 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:American Literature (Dalkey Archive)
Antal sidor:206
Förlag:Dalkey Archive Press
Medarbetare:Mary McCarthy
ISBN:9781564781710

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Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a short-story writer, bestselling novelist, essayist, and a social and art critic. A member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, she was the author of Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Venice Observed, and Birds of America, among other books.

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"You keep reading this hypnotic novel the way a sleeping person wants to keep dreaming." — Publisher's Weekly"Alfau's inventive 'comedy of gestures' is, like any hall of mirrors fun house, disorienting, maddening, and greatly entertaining. Ithas everything any modern best-seller needs: murder, incest, fallen priests, Iascivious nuns, a couple of suicides, several mysteries, the living dead, pimps and whores and poets, locales that shift from China to the Philippines to the Caribbean to Europe." — Washington Post