{"product_id":"kzradock-the-onion-man-and-louis-levy-9781939663283","title":"Kzradock the Onion Man and the Spring-Fresh Methuselah: From the Notes of Dr. Renard de Montpensier","description":"Originally published in Danish in 1910, \u003ci\u003eKzradock the Onion Man and the Spring-Fresh Methuselah\u003c\/i\u003e is a fevered pulp novel that reads like nothing else of its time: an anomaly within the tradition of the Danish novel, and one that makes for a startlingly modern read to this day. Combining elements of the serial film, detective story and gothic horror novel, \u003ci\u003eKzradock\u003c\/i\u003e is a surreal foray into psychoanalytic mysticism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOpening in a Parisian insane asylum where Dr. Renard de Montpensier is conducting hypnotic s ances with the titular Onion Man, the novel escalates quickly with the introduction of battling detectives, murders and a puma in a hallucinating movie theater before shifting to the chalk cliffs of Brighton. It is there that the narrator must confront a ghost child, a scalped detective, a skeleton, a deaf-mute dog and a manipulative tapeworm in order to properly confront his own sanity and learn the spiritual lesson of the human onion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Gershom Scholem read the novel in its 1912 German translation on the recommendation of Walter Benjamin, he concluded: \"This is a \u003ci\u003egreat\u003c\/i\u003e book, and it speaks a formidable language ... This book lays out the metaphysics of doubt.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Louis Levy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1939663288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781939663283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wakefield Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 4.40w x 0.50d","brand":"Louis Levy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988079509759,"sku":"9781939663283","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ccd402de-9d19-46d2-9792-914d81677738.jpg?v=1683292504","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kzradock-the-onion-man-and-louis-levy-9781939663283","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}