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5.0

A fantastic little essay in which Caillois' brief link with Surrealism shines through with his evocation of the odd and false spaces in this Paris neighborhood as harboring the phantasmagorical, alien, and unnatural. Be sure to read the afterword, in which Caillois revisits his essay (and its ending) after it has been optioned to be produced as a television show.
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