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A Modernist novel written at the age of 26 and published in 1936, which readers have compared with Nabokov, Calvino, Marquez and Borges. Comic yet surreal, the characters take on innumerable identities as they climb out of the fictitious world into the real.
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"First published in 1936 and unjustly ignored for the next half century, this novel anticipates the magic realism of modern Latin American fiction. Neatly divided into segments that read like short stories, it juggles a congeries of absurdist types such as pimps, beggars, and priests in what can be taken as a metaphor for Spain today." -- Library Journal
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The interconnected stories that form this novel take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the 1001 Arabian Nights and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their young "author". First published in 1936 and long neglected, this elegantly inventive novel anticipates works like Pale Fire and One Hundred Years of Solitude. In Locos, Felipe Alfau creates a mercurial dreamscape in which the characters - the eccentric, sometimes criminal, habitues of Toledo's Cafe of the Crazy - wrench free of authorial control, invade one another's stories, and even turn into one another.
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0670829544
- ISBN 13 9780670829545
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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