Locus Solus

By Raymond Roussel

Book Overview

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 Solusis unlike anything else ever written.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081122645X
• ISBN13: 9780811226455
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"