| On Elegance While Sleeping Contributor(s): Tegui, Emilio Lascano (Author), Novey, Idra (Translator), Manzoni, Celina (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1564786048 ISBN-13: 9781564786043 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2010033987 |
| Series: Argentinian Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.52" W x 8.14" (0.55 lbs) 174 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "I write out of pure voluptuousness, I confess." The first English translation of the self-proclaimed "Viscount" Emilio Lascano Tegui--a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, and a larger-than-life eccentric in his own right--"On Elegance While Sleeping" is the deliciously macabre novel, part "Maldoror" and part "Dorian Gray," that established its author's reputation as a renegade hero of Argentine literature. It tells the story, in the form of a surreal diary, of a lonely, syphilitic French soldier, who--after too many brothels and disappointments--returns from Africa longing for a world with more elegance. Disturbing, provocative, and mesmerizing, "On Elegance While Sleeping" charts the decline of man unraveling due to his own oversensitivity--and drifting closer and closer to committing a murder. |