Upside-Down Stories is now available from Black Scat Books!
Charles Cros and Émile Goudeau were quintessential Bohemian poets of the 1880s. Cros also experimented with the phonograph and color photography; Goudeau founded the Hydropathes, who met to declaim poetry while not drinking water. Cros and Goudeau’s only collaboration was a series of five exuberant stories published in 1880, which satirized such hot topics as divorce and capital punishment with bawdy humor and wild flights of fancy. All five stories are included here, plus four solo stories by Cros that complete the series, translated and annotated by Doug Skinner. These dense and nutty gems will surprise you!
You can find it on Amazon, or from Black Scat Books.
4 responses so far ↓
1 mamie caton // Apr 12, 2019 at 11:21 pm
It’s quite nice. The introduction is interesting and educational. The first story is a medical anomaly!
2 Doug // Apr 13, 2019 at 6:21 pm
It’s also in questionable taste!
3 mamie caton // Apr 12, 2019 at 11:22 pm
Also, I dig the new header!
4 Doug // Apr 13, 2019 at 6:22 pm
Thank you.