The title character meets Maloney the Areopagite, who tells him the story of Saint Puce, a flea who spent his entire life in the armpit of Jesus Christ.
It includes a "Crime Journal" in which John Raskolnikov Gilson describes killing an idiot with a knife, after which he goes out and flirts with some sailors. The title character meets Maloney the Areopagite, who tells him the story of Saint Puce, a flea who spent his entire life in the armpit of Jesus Christ. At the end of the novel he has sex with Mary McGeeney, a teacher who is writing a biography of Samuel Perkins, the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of Boswell. The entire book apparently takes place within the Trojan Horse, which the title character enters via the anus. FTP, name this surrealistic work of fiction, the first novel by Nathaniel West.
It includes a "Crime Journal" in which John Raskolnikov Gilson describes killing an idiot with a knife, after which he goes out and flirts with some sailors.
The {Dream Life of Balso Snell}