Locus Solus

Locus Solus

<p><strong><strong>An intoxicating sui generis novel by “the greatest mesmerist of modern times” (André Breton)</strong></strong></p><p>The 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. <span style="font-size: 12px;">Wondrously imaginative and narrated with Roussel’s deadpan wit,</span><em style="font-size: 12px;">Locus Solus</em><span style="font-size: 12px;">is unlike anything else ever written.</span></p>