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"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 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. He promptly falls in love with a goat, and recalls the time, after a childhood illness, when his hair fell out and grew back orange--a phenomenon his doctor attributed to the cultivation of carrots in a neighboring town. Disturbing, provocative, and mesmerizing, On Elegance While Sleeping charts the decline of a man unraveling due to his own oversensitivity--and drifting closer and closer to committing a murder"--Publisher
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On Elegance While Sleeping, Emilio Lascano Tegui
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- Année de publication
- 2010
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- Titre
- On Elegance While Sleeping
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Emilio Lascano Tegui
- Éditeur
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Publié
- 2010
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 200
- ISBN10
- 1564786048
- ISBN13
- 9781564786043
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Thème historique, 20e siècle, Littérature espagnole, Littérature hispano-américaine
- Titre original
- De la elegancia mientras se duerme
- Évaluation
- 3,7 sur 5
- Description
- "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 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. He promptly falls in love with a goat, and recalls the time, after a childhood illness, when his hair fell out and grew back orange--a phenomenon his doctor attributed to the cultivation of carrots in a neighboring town. Disturbing, provocative, and mesmerizing, On Elegance While Sleeping charts the decline of a man unraveling due to his own oversensitivity--and drifting closer and closer to committing a murder"--Publisher