concept
Comprachicos
comprachicos
also: компрачикосами
A term popularized by Victor Hugo's 'The Man Who Laughs' (1869) for a legendary band of child-buyers and mutilators; Chekhov tosses it into his mock-will's inventory of the whole earth's contents as absurdist, faintly sinister exotica.
Reading notes
- The Liberal §52 compra-chicos
A term popularized by Victor Hugo's 'The Man Who Laughs' for a legendary band of child-buyers and mutilators, dropped into the mock-will's inventory as absurdist, faintly sinister exotica.