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  • Locus Solus

    by Raymond Roussel ...
    Translated by Rupert Copeland Cunningham ...
    An intoxicating sui generis novel by “the greatest mesmerist of modern times” (André Breton)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 ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Impressions of Africa

    by Raymond Roussel ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series series French Literature
    In a mythical African land, some shipwrecked and uniquely talented passengers stage a grand gala to entertain themselves and their captor, the great chieftain Talou. In performance after bizarre performance—starring, among others, a zither-playing worm, a marksman who can peel an egg at fifty yards, a railway car that rolls on calves' lungs, and fabulous machines that paint, weave, and compose ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Impressions of Africa

    by Raymond Roussel ...
    Translated by Mark Ford ...
    Series series Facing Pages
    A new translation of a masterpiece of modernist poetryPoet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) was one of the French belle époque's most compelling literary figures. During his lifetime, Roussel's work was vociferously championed by the surrealists, but never achieved the widespread acclaim for which he yearned. New Impressions of Africa is undoubtedly Roussel ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Impressions of Africa

    by Raymond Roussel ...
    The first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with the first or the tenth chapter. ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

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  • The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    A collection of travel essays from the New York Times –bestselling author whose writing sparkles with "prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves" ( Time ).Few men have traveled as wisely as Lawrence Durrell. Born in India, he lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt water, and an unfettered bohemian lifestyle. Over the following decades, he rambled aroun... ... Read more

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  • The Scorpion-Fish

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    On an unamed Island that can only be Ceylon, the traveller checks into his 117th rented room, abandoned by his lover, poor and feverish. A book on Indian insects deepens his morbid fascination with the crawling inhabitants of the room-'a pretty world of killers'- barely distinguishable from the insect like habitues of the local cafe, the charlatans and fake exorcists, the indolent landowners, ... Read more

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  • Recollections of the Golden Triangle

    by Alain Robbe-Grillet ...
    Translated by J.A. Underwood ...
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