| Locos: A Comedy of Gestures Contributor(s): Alfau, Felipe (Author), McCarthy, Mary (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 1564781712 ISBN-13: 9781564781710 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1997 Annotation: The interconnected stories that form this novel 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". First published in 1936 and long neglected, this elegantly inventive novel anticipates works like Pale Fire and One Hundred Years of Solitude. In Locos, Felipe Alfau creates a mercurial dreamscape in which the characters - the eccentric, sometimes criminal, habitues of Toledo's Cafe of the Crazy - wrench free of authorial control, invade one another's stories, and even turn into one another. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 88014975 |
| Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive) |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.58" W x 8.51" (0.75 lbs) 206 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |