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More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USAAmazon.com ReviewExquisite Corpse is a novel, a survey of World War II history, and a commentary on surrealist art, all in one; and due to author Robert Irwin's immense skill, it does a crackerjack job with all three. The story opens in 1930s England, where Caspar, an ardent devotee of surrealism, leads a happily bohemian life. He paints his mediocre pictures, meets with his fellow surrealists in the Serapion Brotherhood, and generally subscribes to the belief that the anarchy of surrealism will lead to liberation of the imagination. Then he meets Caroline, a woman so relentlessly ordinary that she is nothing short of exotic to Caspar. He falls instantly in love with her and for a time revels in her middle-class life: her job as a secretary, her passion for amateur theatricals, her shopping excursions into department stores. When Caroline disappears from Caspar's life, he is thrown into--dare we say it?--a surreal search for her that will take him to Nazi Germany, into a mental hospital, through the war years, and eventually into the concentration camps and out again. Journeys such as Caspar's are often
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Robert Irwin
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780517270691
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.58 / 5 (1,737 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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