Cocaina
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| I've reached the [[sterilization]] bit in'' [[Cocaina]]'', I was reminded by [[Stefan]] that [[1921]] is the era of [[surrealism]], so the novel can be considered a [[surrealist novel]]. | I've reached the [[sterilization]] bit in'' [[Cocaina]]'', I was reminded by [[Stefan]] that [[1921]] is the era of [[surrealism]], so the novel can be considered a [[surrealist novel]]. | ||
| - | ==The execution== | + | ==The execution report== |
| The part where he writes about the 4:AM [[execution]] which did not take place was hilarious. | The part where he writes about the 4:AM [[execution]] which did not take place was hilarious. | ||
| + | ==The suicide== | ||
| + | Our hero dies of a self-administered dose of [[tyfus]]. Two doctors mis-diagnose and he survives, one diagnoses correctly and he dies. | ||
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Cocaina (1921) is a novel by Italian author Pitigrilli.
The novel, set in Paris and dedicated to cocaine use, was banned when it was published due to its liberal use of explicit sex and drugs.
While it's not a name-dropping novel, it squeezes in Sully Prudhomme, d'Annunzio and six or seven more novelists.
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The love triangle
Tito Arnaudi has to choose between Kalantan Ter-Gregorianz and the cocotte Maud Fabrège
The orgy
- "It was held at the villa of Madam Kalantan Ter-Gregorianz, located near the Champs Elysees in that mundane quarter where the cocaine aristocrats dwell in "
Maud's sterilization
I've reached the sterilization bit in Cocaina, I was reminded by Stefan that 1921 is the era of surrealism, so the novel can be considered a surrealist novel.
The execution report
The part where he writes about the 4:AM execution which did not take place was hilarious.
The suicide
Our hero dies of a self-administered dose of tyfus. Two doctors mis-diagnose and he survives, one diagnoses correctly and he dies.
