“A Splendid Prolongation”: Studies in Crap visits Mallorca, the land of the gilded run-on
Each Thursday (and, for the hell of it, today), your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.
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Mallorca: English Edition
Author: Antonion Campana and Juan Puig-Ferran
Publisher: Postales Color CYP, Barcelona
Date: 1975
Discovered at: 2nd Chance Thrift, 63rd & Troost
The Cover Promises: None of the mangled glory found within.
Representative Quote: “Throughout these pages commenting on the different aspects of the Balearic Islands, in unison with the purely narrative parts, there are interspersed, perhaps with even greater attractive force, the marvelous landscapes picked out from among the beauties of Nature, that so prodigally sublimates the thousands of attractions that swarms of painters have managed to capture through their talent, and who never tire of proclaiming that they have found the Mecca of their dreams in the witchery of the Islands.” (page 5)
And it goes on like that.
Sun-drunk and tender-brained, Mallorca: English Edition is not merely a tourist dispatch from Spain’s beautiful Balearic Islands. No, this book hails from some realm far removed from this mortal sphere, a dreamscape where the collision of ambitious prose and shaky translation sparks new and impossible life.
