René Crevel (1900-1935), a bisexual communist who suffered from tuberculosis, was one of the most important surrealist authors, a true genius, and possibly the best writer of surrealist fiction, and no other of his works of fiction is more surreal than Are You All Crazy?-originally published in 1929 and here presented for the first time in English in a superb translation by Sue Boswell. In this feverish, full-speed-ahead novel of out-and-out madness, we meet a redhead who gives birth to a blue child, hear the naughty song of the pigtail-pullers, visit the Sexual Institute of Dr Optimus Cerf-Mayer, attend an eonism séance, and witness a fifty-kilo rat disembowelling a fakir. Are You All crazy? is a subversive masterpiece and a work of deep psychological interest, which, although puzzling in the utmost in its excesses of satirical bravado, certainly must be acknowledged to be one of the great European novels.
- | Author: René Crevel
- | Publisher: Snuggly Books
- | Publication Date: Mar 28, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 198 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1645251217
- | ISBN-13: 9781645251217
- Author:
- René Crevel
- Publisher:
- Snuggly Books
- Publication Date:
- Mar 28, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 198 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1645251217
- ISBN-13:
- 9781645251217