Felipe Alfau
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Felipe Alfau
In 1988, Dalkey Archive reprinted Felipe Alfau’s neglected masterpiece of 1936, Locos: A Comedy of Gestures, which drew renewed praise from the New Yorker and other magazines. Chromos, his second and only other novel, was written in the 1940s but never published largely, we suspect, because it was years ahead of its time, using techniques that would later be “discovered” by such authors as John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and Thomas Pynchon. Like these authors, Alfau turns the conventional novel on its head. An eerie frame story encloses a series of…
