Rat Catching by Crispin Hellion GloverMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical. (Paul Delvaux)
this is a surrealist reassembly of the 1896 memoir/guide book/paean to rat-catching Studies in the art of rat-catching of Henry C. Barkley.
“As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.”
― Comte de Lautréamont
it recalls to me the thoughts of Delvaux and the Comte. But, there's also a nagging feeling a beautifully quaint and obsessive autobiography is merely presented in marred form... but then i greatly enjoyed the reading. Is all the taxidermy in the original? now, I want to try my hand at reengineering and envisioning anew a curious 19th century tome..
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