Babylon (Sun and Moon Classics)
Contributors: Kay Boyle (Translator); Max Ernst (Illustrator)
Publisher: Sun and Moon Press
Published: October 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781557131966
Subjects: Modern fiction; Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; French Novel And Short Story; Fiction - General; Fiction; General; Fiction / General
Description: Babylon is a landmark of Surrealist literature, an enduring achievement of one of its leading figures, Rene Crevel. Crevel explores the private worlds of children and their sexual imaginations in this important novel, now republished in the prestigious Sun & Moon Classics.

A free-spirited young girl witnesses her father elope with a beautiful English cousin, the chambermaid run off with and then kill the gardener, her grandmother seduce her mother's new fiance, and her mother finally accept an arranged marriage with the bizarre Mac-Louf, darling of the Society for Protection by Rational Experience.