Tag: Blood

  • BRING A WEASEL AND A PINT OF YOUR OWN BLOOD

    In 1928, the 26-year-old Felipe Alfau, a recent émigré to New York from Barcelona, strafed the prologue to his picaresque first novel, Locos: A Comedy of Gestures, with dares, complaints, and disavowals. The reader was invited to begin the book at any page and proceed in any direction. Despite praise from reviewers when finally published…