Circle Game (6)

By: Joshua Glenn
August 20, 2015

One in a series of posts dedicated to circles used as metaphors on vintage book and LP covers, movie posters, etc.

blind circle

Maurice Renard and Albert Jean’s Blind Circle (1924; this is the 1928 English language edition). Originally: Le Singe (The Monkey). Macabre mystery novel concerning the reanimation of corpses. A scientist has discovered an electrolysis technique (“radiogenesis”), which allows him to duplicate, but not animate, animal tissue. He has fabricated lifeless clones of himself and scattered them around Paris, as a publicity stunt.

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SIMILAR HILOBROW SERIES: BICYCLE KICK | CECI EST UNE PIPE — a gallery | CHESS MATCH — a gallery | EGGHEAD — a gallery | CIRCLE GAME | FILE X — a gallery | HILOBROW COVERS — a gallery | THE BOOK IS A WEAPON — a gallery | EGGHEAD — a gallery | LATF HIPSTER

Categories

Semiotics, Spectacles