{"product_id":"on-elegance-while-sleeping","title":"On Elegance While Sleeping","description":"172 pp. Translated into English by Idra Novey. The first English translation of the self-proclaimed \"Viscount\" Emilio Lascano Tegui - a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, and a larger-than-life eccentric in his own right - On Elegance While Sleeping is the deliciously macabre novel, part Maldoror and part Dorian Gray, that established its author's reputation as a renegade hero of Argentine literature. It tells the story, in the form of a surreal diary, of a lonely, syphilitic French soldier, who - after too many brothels and disappointments - returns from Africa longing for a world with more elegance. He promptly falls in love with a goat, and recalls the time, after a childhood illness, when his hair fell out and grew back orange - a phenomenon his doctor attributed to the cultivation of carrots in a neighboring town. Disturbing, provocative, and mesmerizing, On Elegance While Sleeping charts the decline of a man unraveling due to his own oversensitivity - and drifting closer and closer to committing a murder.","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50808662523974,"sku":"2354976","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/files\/2354976.jpg?v=1793209643","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/on-elegance-while-sleeping","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}