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Imagine, If You Can, Freud And Proust Sitting Down For A Chat With Zippy The Pinhead And The Marquis De Sade. Then, Just When Things Are Starting To Get A Bit Silly, In Walks Karl Marx With A Dead Serious Face To Deliver A Vitriolic Diatribe. After He Has Finished His Speech, Jacques Lacan Enters And Slips A Couch Under The Narrator, Who Begins Psychoanalyzing Himself And His Text. Zippy Soon Prevails, However, And The Narrative Has Turned Into A Political Allegory With. Characters Out Of Felix The Cat: A Surrealist, Graphic (historiographic, Geographic, Pornographic) Version Of The Romance Of The Rose. Rene Crevel's 1933 Novel Putting My Foot In It (les Pieds Dans Le Plat) Has Long Been Considered A Classic Of The Surrealist Period, But Has Never Been Translated Into English Until Now. Loosely Structured Around A Luncheon Attended By Thirteen Guests, The Novel Is A Surrealistic Critique Of The Intellectual Corruption Of Post-world War I. France, Especially The Capitalist Bourgeoisie And Its Supporter, The Catholic Church. The Novel Begins With An Account Of The Family Of The Major Character, Known As The Prince Of Journalists. This Bizarre Family - The Grandparents A Soldier And A

Who reads Putting My Foot in It?

Author

René Crevel

Publisher

Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9781564780171

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Rating

3.71 / 5 (38 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14