SchrummSchrumm, or The Sunday Quicksands Excursion

Translated by K. E. Gormley, with an introduction by Éric Dussert / September 2025 / 5.375 x 8, 320 pp. / 978-1-962728-07-2 One morning, the legendary, lurid, and sinister Sunday Quicksands Excursion Company bus stops outside the professional excursionist SchrummSchrumm’s building. His registration application having been accepted, despite the fact he had never submitted one, SchrummSchrumm lets himself be stripped down, smeared with catechumenal balm for hallucination protection, manacled to the armrests and floor of the bus, and finally blindfolded for the journey to the distant walled city of Misunderstanding. It is there that SchrummSchrumm will undergo a series of increasingly absurd ritualist initiations under the supreme rule of Abocketaback as he prepares for the incessantly forestalled excursion to the Quicksands on the city’s outskirts. Absurdity gives way to nightmare, which again reveals itself to be absurdity, as hero and reader seek, against regulations, a logic to this p