Are You All Crazy?

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>René Crevel (1900-1935) a bisexual communist who suffered from tuberculosis was one of the most important surrealist authors a true genius and possibly the best writer of surrealist fiction and no other of his works of fiction is more surreal than </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Are You All Crazy?</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-originally published in 1929 and here presented for the first time in English in a superb translation by Sue Boswell. In this feverish full-speed-ahead novel of out-and-out madness we meet a redhead who gives birth to a blue child hear the naughty song of the pigtail-pullers visit the Sexual Institute of Dr Optimus Cerf-Mayer attend an eonism séance and witness a fifty-kilo rat disembowelling a fakir. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Are You All crazy?</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a subversive masterpiece and a work of deep psychological interest which although puzzling in the utmost in its excesses of satirical bravado certainly must be acknowledged to be one of the great European novels.</span></p><p><br></p>