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Tom Harris

A Novel

By: Stefan Themerson

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At times in his life, Tom Harris is a dull schoolboy, an apprentice barber, a delinquent husband, an old man with a monkey who drinks at the Green Man Pub, "il professore Harris" at the University of Genoa, and possibly a murderer. But the question of who the elusive Tom Harris really is, and what crimes he has really committed, obsesses the narrator of this novel. Tom Harris can perhaps be described as a sort of philosophical detective story, ingeniously plotted and wittily told with a stylistic virtuosity on par with the most playful works of Raymond Queneau.

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1564783715

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The Mystery of the Sardine

By: Stefan Themerson

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The Mystery of the Sardine

By: Stefan Themerson

When an unknown black poodle inexplicably explodes in philosophy professor Timothy Chesterton-Brown's back yard--paralyzing the professor and killing his guest--the "mystery of the sardine" begins. Its solution will involve such unwitting detectives as a twelve-year-old mathematician, his mother, his beloved, a palmist named Miss Prentice, and a bureaucrat dubbed the Minister of Imponderabilia. The clues they unearth--drawing on logic, the occult, intuition, and everything in between--lead them far away from the tiny seaside town where they begin. We follow them to Majorca, Rome, Warsaw, and London, but in the end, the solution lies beyond even the furthest and most magical reaches of reason.

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156478455X

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9781564784551

Hobson's Island

By: Stefan Themerson

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Hobson's Island

By: Stefan Themerson

Hobson's Island (so called because Mr. Hobson bought it, or did Mr. Hobson buy it because it was so called?) enjoyed decades of isolation in the Atlantic Ocean. For years, the caretakers lived there peacefully, with only a cow for company and an empty house to care for. But all is suddenly disrupted when a wave of unusual visitors arrive: a deposed African king fleeing a revolution, a Hobson descendant claiming ownership, government agents eyeing the nation-less real estate, and scientists looking to test a dangerous new invention. In typical Themerson fashion, the comic is wound up with the serious and let go to devastating effect. A clever and apt parodying of Cold War power plays and twisted science, Hobson's Island is a strangely touching, sympathetic, and emotional account of the families and individuals brought together and broken up by Hobson's Island.

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1564784177

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Tom Harris

A Novel

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Bayamus

By: Stefan THEMERSON

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Bayamus

By: Stefan THEMERSON

Roman philosophique et humoristique, tant sérieux que parodique, Bayamus narre les aventures d'un mutant à trois jambes, dont l'une équipée d'un patin à roulettes, qui désire créer et propager une nouvelle espèce. Cheminant vers le Théâtre de la Poésie Sémantique dans un Londres fantastique, notre héros croise la route de prostituées sémanticiennes, de monstres fervents de poésie en vers, une étrange femme à sept doigts ou encore des policiers rubiconds adeptes de la traduction instantanée. Car si l'humour est au centre de cet ouvrage, il fraie une voie royale à une réflexion sur les rouages et les absurdités du langage. L'auteur se joue des mots, de ses personnages mais aussi des lecteurs, les malmène et les distord. Car c'est la force des génies d'être sérieux sans en avoir l'air !

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