Locus Solus

Locus Solus
Authors
Roussel, Raymond
Publisher
New Directions
Date
1913-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
1.64 MB
Lang
en
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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 Solus* is unlike anything else ever written.