When I Think of My Missing Head

Camondo a painter wakes up one morning in his studio with his head missing it having been yanked from his body the night before by Marieta a model. This is a punishment from the gods who have already taken away his artistic talent. Now mysteriously resurrected but not quite intact Camondo wanders about a seaside town wearing a Franciscan habit stolen from church in an attempt to disguise himself.Published posthumously When I Think of My Missing Head by the Chilean painter and novelist Adolfo Couve here translated for the first time into English by Jessica Sequeira is a phantasmagorical literary experiment an existential puzzle with pieces that fit together by secret logic. With tones that are gothic and surrealist symbolist and magical this is a highly original work of terror and fantasia.