Raymond Roussel: Locus Solus [2017] paperback Condition:New A powerful reckoning over the

A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path

1944 would prove to be the last battleship duel in history

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poignant and startlingly lyrical

Raymond Roussel: Locus Solus [2017] paperback Condition:New A powerful reckoning over theBased, like the earlier Impressions of Africa, on uniquely eccentric principles of composition, this book invites the reader to enter a world which in its innocence and extravagance is unlike anything in the literature of the twentieth century. Cantarel, a scholarly scientist, whose enormous wealth imposes no limits upon his prolific ingenuity, is taking a group of visitors on a tour of "Locus Solus", his secluded estate near Paris. One by one he