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Insel (Neversink)

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Insel (Neversink)

â€œHe has an evening suit, but never an occasion to wear it, so he puts it on when he paints his pictures.â€

Insel, the only novel by the surrealist master Mina Loy, is a book like no otherâ€”about an impossible friendship amid the glamorous artistic bohemia of 1930s Paris.

German painter Insel is a perpetual sponger and outsiderâ€”prone to writing elegant notes with messages like â€œAm starving to death except for a miracleâ€”three oâ€™clock Tuesday afternoon will be the endâ€â€”but somehow writer and art dealer Mrs. Jones likes him.

Together, they sit in cafÃ©s, hatch grand plans, and share their artistic aspirations and disappointments. And they become friends. But as they grow ever closer, Mrs. Jones begins to realize just how powerful Inselâ€™s hold over her is.

Unpublished during Loyâ€™s lifetime, Inselâ€”which is loosely based on her friendship with the painter Richard Oelzeâ€”is a supremely surrealist, deliberately excessive creation: baroque in style, yet full of deft comedy and sympathy. Now, with an alternate ending only recently unearthed in the Loy archives, Insel is finally back in print, and Loyâ€™s extraordinary achievement can be appreciated by a new generation of readers.
Country USA
Brand Melville House Publishing
Manufacturer Melville House
Binding Paperback
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2014-05-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781612193533

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