Are You All Crazy? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781645251217)

René Crevel (1900-1935), a bisexual communist who suffered from tuberculosis, was one of the most important surrealist authors, a true genius, and possibly the best writer of surrealist fiction, and no other of his works of fiction is more surreal than Are You All Crazy?-originally published in 1929 and here presented for the first time in English in a superb translation by Sue Boswell. In this feverish, full-speed-ahead novel of out-and-out madness, we meet a redhead who gives birth to a blue child, hear the naughty song of the pigtail-pullers, visit the Sexual Institute of Dr Optimus Cerf-Mayer, attend an eonism séance, and witness a fifty-kilo rat disembowelling a fakir. Are You All crazy? is a subversive masterpiece and a work of deep psychological interest, which, although puzzling in the utmost in its excesses of satirical bravado, certainly must be acknowledged to be one of the great European novels.

Author: René Crevel
ISBN-10: 1645251217
ISBN-13: 9781645251217
Publisher: Snuggly Books
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2023
Pages: 198
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.45d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/06/2023