Mina Loy

';He has an evening suit, but never an occasion to wear it, so he puts it on when he paints his pictures.'Insel, the only novel by the surrealist master Mina Loy, is a book like no otherabout an impossible friendship amid the glamorous artistic bohemia of 1930s Paris.German painter Insel is a perpetual sponger and outsiderprone to writing...