E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm
Reihe: Argentinian Literature
Tegui On Elegance While Sleeping
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-56478-673-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm
Reihe: Argentinian Literature
ISBN: 978-1-56478-673-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
"I write out of pure voluptuousness, I confess." The first English translation of the self-proclaimed "Viscount" Emilio Lascano Tegui--a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, and a larger-than-life eccentric in his own right-- On Elegance While Sleeping is the deliciously macabre novel, part Maldoror and part Dorian Gray, that established its author's reputation as a renegade hero of Argentine literature. It tells the story, in the form of a surreal diary, of a lonely, syphilitic French soldier, who--after too many brothels and disappointments--returns from Africa longing for a world with more elegance. Disturbing, provocative, and mesmerizing, On Elegance While Sleeping charts the decline of man unraveling due to his own oversensitivity--and drifting closer and closer to committing a murder.
