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Castellanos Moya'sSenselessness was acclaimed "an innovative and invigoratingly twisted piece of art" (Village Voice) and "a brilliantly crafted moral fable, as if Kafka had gone to Latin America for his source materials" (Russell Banks).

Wstręt. Thomas Bernhard w San Salvadorze to przykład literatury, w której tli się płomień, która zalewa czytelnika kolejnymi falami narracyjnych torsji. Horacio Castellanos Moya nadał swojej głośnej powieści z 1997 roku formę obsesyjnego monologu, ukazując społeczeństwo w stanie upadku: pełne przemocy, podłe i puste. Wstręt jest bezkompromisową tyradą na obyczajowość i kulturę Salwadoru. Został uznany za tak radykalny, że po premierze książki autorowi grożono śmiercią.Główny punkt odniesienia dla tego dzieła niewątpliwie stanowi twórczość Thomasa...

A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army's massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. The writer's job is to tidy it up: he rants, "that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and giving a manicure to the Catholic hands that were piously getting ready to squeeze the balls of the military tiger." Mesmerized by the strange Vallejo-like poetry of the Indians' phrases ("the houses they were sad because no...

The tyrant of Horacio Castellanos Moya s ambitious new novel is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez known as the Warlock who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An attempted coup in April, 1944, failed, but a general strike in May finally forced him out of office. Tyrant Memory takes place during the month between the coup and the strike. Its protagonist, Haydee Aragon, is a well-off woman, whose husband is a political prisoner and whose son, Clemente, after prematurely announcing the dictator s death over national radio during the failed coup, is forced to flee when...