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His collected essays. Harry Mathews is one of the Ou Li Po masters (along with friend Georges Perec, Calvino, Raymond Queneau & others). Fabulously amusing & bizarro novelist, inventive prose stylist & poet. Essays on Roussel, Isidore Ducasse, the Ou Li Po, Georges Perec, & the trials & successes & procedures of a genuinely avant-garde experimenter. Other books include, memorably, The Way Home, Twenty Lines A Day, Singular Pleasures, & Selected Declarations of Dependence, The Human Country - and the novels, The Conversions, Tlooth, The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium, Cigarettes & others. |