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Snuggly Books When I Think Of My Missing Head by Adolfo Couve
Camondo, A Painter, Wakes Up One Morning In His Studio With His Head Missing, It Having Been Yanked From His Body The Night Before By Marieta, A Model. This Is A Punishment From The Gods, Who Have Already Taken Away His Artistic Talent. Now, Mysteriously Resurrected But Not Quite Intact, Camondo Wanders About A Seaside Town Wearing A Franciscan Habit Stolen From Church In An Attempt To Disguise Himself.Published Posthumously, When I Think Of My Missing Head, By The Chilean Painter And Novelist Adolfo Couve, Here Translated For The First Time Into English By Jessica Sequeira, Is A Phantasmagorical Literary Experiment, An Existential Puzzle With Pieces That Fit Together By Secret Logic. With Tones That Are Gothic And Surrealist, Symbolist And Magical, This Is A Highly Original Work Of Terror And Fantasia.