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Famous first novel.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. Other books include, memorably, The Way Home, Twenty Lines A Day, Singular Pleasures, & Selected Declarations of Dependence.DARK HORSEY SAYS- Harry Mathews' famous & fabulous first (1962) novel is in print again! Raymond Roussel meets Colombo meets Georges Perec. A guest receives a golden adze, the coveted prize in a worm race. As possessor of the adze he may answer three mystical questions to receive the dead host's fortune - hence a journey thru Paris prisons, obscure persecuted ects, a lost Scottish town & the ocean floor. And more. A nutty tour de force. |
