The temple of iconoclasts
By: J. Rodolfo Wilcock ; translated from the Italian by Lawrence Venuti
Contributors: Venuti, Lawrence, translator
Series: Verdi Mundi International literature series -- 25
Publisher: A Verba Mundi Book/David R. Godine
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781567925302
Subjects: Imaginary biography
Work titles: Sinagoga degli iconoclasti
Description: "From an armchair in England, Rosenblum hatches a complicated plot to return the world to the year 1580-reintroducing ruffs, doublets, codpieces, and sundry period diseases. By sheer force of will, Littlefield discovers that he's able to crystallize table salt into the shapes of "chickens and other small animals." Babson founds an international organization with the declared aim of annulling the law of gravity. These are only a few of the dozens of eccentrics, visionaries, and downright crackpots who populate the pages of Juan Rodolfo Wilcock's charming fiction in the form of a biographical dictionary. Temple's brief portraits blend mordant satire and profound imaginative sympathy, taking in the whole dazzling spectrum of human folly-including a handful of colors that only Wilcock's Swiftian eye could possibly have perceived" --
Notes: "First Published in the United States of America by Mercury House [San Francisco], 2000" -- Verso title page.