Babylon
by René Crevel
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Babylon is a landmark of Surrealist literature, an enduring achievement of one of its leading figures, Rene Crevel. Crevel explores the private worlds of children and their sexual imaginations in this important novel, now republished in the prestigious Sun & Moon Classics.A free-spirited young girl witnesses her father elope with a beautiful English cousin, the chambermaid run off with and then kill the gardener, her grandmother seduce her mother's new fiance, and her mother finally accept show more an arranged marriage with the bizarre Mac-Louf, darling of the Society for Protection by Rational Experience. show lessTags
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Lyrical tale of a bourgeois family's collapse and degradation from the perspective of its youngest member, told by poet and surrealist Crevel. The highly poetic language often borders on the incomprehensible, but the whole thing is an unparalleled rush of images. Beautiful.
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- Canonical title
- Babylon
- Original title
- Babylone
- Original publication date
- 1927
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- Members
- 157
- Popularity
- 209,410
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.78)
- Languages
- 5 — Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 4
