Locos
Subtitle: A Comedy of Gestures (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: September 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781564781710
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction; Literary
Description: The interconnected stories that form this novel take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the 1001 Arabian Nights and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their young "author.".

First published in 1936 and long neglected, this elegantly inventive novel anticipates works like Pale Fire and One Hundred Years of Solitude. In Locos, Felipe Alfau creates a mercurial dreamscape in which the characters - the eccentric, sometimes criminal, habitues of Toledo's Cafe of the Crazy - wrench free of authorial control, invade one another's stories, and even turn into one another.