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.
General
| Imprint: |
Dalkey Archive Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
American Literature (Dalkey Archive) |
| Release date: |
May 2023 |
| First published: |
September 1997 |
| Authors: |
Felipe Alfau
|
| Afterword by: |
Mary McCarthy
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 142 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
206 |
| Edition: |
New Ed |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-56478-171-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
1-56478-171-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781564781710 |
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