{"product_id":"locus-solus-9780811226455","title":"Locus Solus","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe wealthy scientist Martial Canterel guides a group of visitors through his expansive estate, Locus Solus, where he displays his various deranged inventions, each more spectacular than the last. First, he introduces a machine propelled by the weather, which constructs a mosaic out of varying hues of human teeth, then shows a hairless cat charged with a powerful electric battery, and next a bizarre theater in which corpses are reanimated with a special serum to enact the most important movements of their past lives. Wondrously imaginative and narrated with Roussel's deadpan wit, Locus Solusis unlike anything else ever written.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoussel, Raymond:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRaymond Roussel\u003c\/strong\u003e was born into a wealthy Parisian family in 1877 and died in a hotel room in Palermo in 1933. His works have influenced such artists and writers as Marcel Duchamp (\"Roussel showed me the way\"), Alberto Giacometti, Kenneth Koch, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Leonardo Sciascia, Paul Auster, Georges Perec, and Jim Jarmusch.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900890550546,"sku":"9780811226455","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_184b8218-198a-4b50-8a49-ea806c7c2938.jpg?v=1738404053","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/locus-solus-9780811226455","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}