A passionate, epic writer, the author of Before Night Falls, concludes his five-novel sequence--a "secret history of Cuba" and a writer's autobiography--with this allegorical satire. Arenas paints a harrowing yet boldly entertaining Kafka-esque picture of a dehumanized people and the despair of an observer/narrator clinging to sanity.
A passionate, epic writer, the author of Before Night Falls, concludes his five-novel sequence--a "secret history of Cuba" and a writer's autobiograph...
Horacio Quiroga: The Dead Man Julia Cortazar: Axolotl Armonia Somers: Waiting for Polidoro Jorge Luis Borges: The Circular Ruins Juan Carlos Onetti: The Dog Will Have Its Day Adolfo Bioy Casares: The Idol Manuel Puig: Relative Humidity 95%
Two: Chile
Isabel Allende: Toad's Mouth
Three: Brazil
Jorge Amado: The Miracle of the Birds Murilo Rubiao: The Ex-Magician from the Minhota Tavern Clarice Lispector: Love Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: The Psychiatrist Moacyr Scliar: The Plagues Joao...
Introduction
One: The River Plate
Horacio Quiroga: The Dead Man Julia Cortazar: Axolotl Armonia Somers: Waiting for Polidoro Jorge...
In the brilliant tradition of Don Quixote and Candide, this passionate novel by the author of Before Night Falls is a modern masterpiece of Latin American fiction. Fray Servando priest, blasphemer, dueler of monsters, irresistible lover, misunderstood prophet, prisoner, and consummate escape artist wanders among the vice-ridden populations of eighteenth-century Europe and the Americas, fleeing dungeons, a marriage-minded woman, a slave ship captain, and the Inquisition. Whether by burro, by boat, or by the back of a whale, Fray Servando s journey is at once funny and...
In the brilliant tradition of Don Quixote and Candide, this passionate novel by the author of Before Night Falls is a modern mast...