Author

Contributions

  • Kay Boyle (Translator) - Contributor
  • Max Ernst (Illustrator) - Contributor

Publication

1996-10-01 - Sun and Moon Press

Language

English

Word Count

42,250 words, Guess

Page Count

169 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL8598335M
  • ISBN-139781557131966
  • ISBN-101557131961
  • OCLC Control Number35191633
  • LibraryThing408812
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  • Goodreads1334618

Description

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 an arranged marriage with the bizarre Mac-Louf, darling of the Society for Protection by Rational Experience.

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