A Dictionary of Symbols - Juan Eduardo Cirlot Lewis Carroll holding the children tightly to

holding the children tightly to his body

Bjorn Nørgaard

Basso takes us on a tour of bizarre literary landscapes and eccentric machines created by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and Alfred Jarry

These travels inspired his first two books

but nevertheless profound

A Dictionary of Symbols - Juan Eduardo Cirlot Lewis Carroll holding the children tightly toA Dictionary of Symbols by Juan Eduardo Cirlot ISBN 9781681371979 An attractive 553 page paperback from the New York Review of Books Classics, 7 x 8. 5 inches *** Juan Eduardo Cirlots A Dictionary of Symbols is a feat of scholarship, an act of the imagination, and a tool for contemplation, as well as a work of literature, a reference book that is as indispensable as it is brilliant and learned. Cirlot was a composer, a poet, an art critic, and a