Raymond Roussel: Locus Solus [2017] paperback Condition:New author of Major Pettigrew's Last

author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

such as classical Kamasan art

poignant and startlingly lyrical

'Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic' PANKAJ MISHRA

' Barbara Kingsolver on The Overstory

Raymond Roussel: Locus Solus [2017] paperback Condition:New author of Major Pettigrew's LastBased, 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