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"I write out of pure voluptuousness, I confess." The first English translation of the self-proclaimed "Viscount" Emilio Lascano Tegui -- a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, and a larger-than-life eccentric in his own right -- On Elegance While Sleeping is the deliciously macabre novel, part Maldoror and part Dorian Gray, that established its author's reputation as a renegade hero of Argentine literature. It tells the story, in the form of a surreal diary, of a lonely, syphilitic French soldier, who -- after too many brothels and disappointments -- returns from Africa longing for a world with more elegance. Disturbing, provocative, and mesmerizing, On Elegance While Sleeping charts the decline of man unraveling due to his own oversensitivity -- and drifting closer and closer to committing a murder.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Fiction in translation

• Full title: On Elegance While Sleeping
• Author: Emilio Lascano Tegui, Celina Manzoni, Idra Novey
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200
• EAN: 9781564786043
• ISBN: 1564786048
• ID: 04403683
• Publisher: W W NORTON & CO
• Weight: 247 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 142 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. November 2010

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