Locus Solus

Raymond Roussel

earliest edition we have, 2005 Flammarion, 2005 333 pages

GF Flammarion -- 1223

"The wealthy scientist Cantarel is taking a group of visitors on a tour of Locus Solus, his secluded estate near Paris. One by one he introduces, demonstrates and expounds the discoveries and inventions of his fertile mind: a tool which, when activated by the weather, creates a mosaic of human teeth; a vast aquarium in which a depilated cat is seen stimulating the partially decomposed head of Danton to fresh flights...

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Locus Solus edition · 2008 · Oneworld Classics · 215 pages · 9781847490711
Locus Solus edition · 2005 · Flammarion · 333 pages · 9782080712233

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