When I Think of My Missing Head

Camondo, a painter, wakes up one morning in his studio with his head missing, it having been yanked from his body the night before by Marieta, a model. This is a punishment from the gods, who have already taken away his artistic talent. Now, mysteriously resurrected but not quite intact, Camondo wanders about a seaside town wearing a Franciscan habit stolen from church in an attempt to disguise himself.
Published posthumously, When I Think of My Missing Head, by the Chilean painter and novelist Adolfo Couve, here translated for the first time into English by Jessica Sequeira, is a phantasmagorical literary experiment, an existential puzzle with pieces that fit together by secret logic. With tones that are gothic and surrealist, symbolist and magical, this is a highly original work of terror and fantasia.

Product details

• Authors: Adolfo Couve
• Assisted by: Jessica Sequeira (Translation)
• Publisher: Snuggly Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.09.2018
• EAN: 9781943813742
• ISBN: 978-1-943813-74-2
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 143 g
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy