The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell Paperback / softback
by Carlos Rojas
Part of the The Margellos World Republic of Letters series
Paperback / softback
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A modern Spanish masterpiece by one of the most extraordinary novelists of our time "As intelligent and audacious a meditation on art, fate and mortality as anyone could hope to read." -Los Angeles Times In Carlos Rojas's imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel's Tower of Babel.
He sits alone in a small theater in this private hell, viewing scenes from his own life performed over and over and over.
Unexpectedly, two doppelgangers appear, one a middle-aged Lorca, the other an irascible octogenarian self, and the poet faces a nightmarish confusion of alternative identities and destinies. Carlos Rojas uses a fantastic premise-Garcia Lorca in hell-to reexamine the poet's life and speculate on alternatives to his tragic end.
Rojas creates with a surrealist's eye and a moral philosopher's mind.
He conjures a profoundly original world, and in so doing earns a place among such international peers as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Philip Roth, J.
M. Coetzee, and Jose Saramago.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:29/04/2014
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- ISBN:9780300205862
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:29/04/2014
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- ISBN:9780300205862
