The Tutu
ISBN-13: 9781900565639
Contributor(s): Leon Genonceaux
Subjects: Classic Fiction (Pre 1945)
Publisher: Atlas Press
Publisher Imprint: Atlas Press
Publication Date: 08-06-2013
Format: Hardback
Availability: In stock
£15.00
About the book
The Tutu is a genuine literary mystery: a lost masterpiece. Published in 1891, it never made it to bookshops. Its existence was only revealed in 1966, by a famous literary hoaxer. It is the ultimate decadent novel', but also outlandishly modern; it is excessive, repellent, infantile and riotously funny. Yet despite its absurdities, its eccentricities and its extravagance, in the end it somehow manages to appear compassionate, poetic, tender... even rational.'