Julian Rios

Larva

A Midsummer Night's Babel

Buch

A striking reassessment of the Don Juan myth. A literary tour de force, this extraordinary novel is told in single-minded pursuit of double meanings, but it is serious play. Larva is a rollicking account of a masquerade party in an abandoned mansion in London. Milalias (disguised as Don Juan) searches for Babelle (as Sleeping Beauty) through a linguistic funhouse of puns and wordplay recalling Joyce's Finnegans Wake. A mock-scholarly commentary reveals the backgrounds of the masked revellers, while Rios' allusive language shows that words too wear masks, hiding an astonishing range of further meanings and implications. Larva revives a Hispani… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Francis, Richard Alan (Übers.) / Levine, Suzanne Jill (Zus. mit)

ISBN: 978-1-56478-368-4
EAN: 9781564783684
Produktnummer: 9076015
Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
Seitenangabe: 545 S.

Über den Autor

Julia?n Ri?os is Spain's foremost post- modernist writer. After co-authoring two books with Octavio Paz, Ri?os went on to write numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including Larva, Poundemonium, Loves That Bind, and Monstruary, all of which have been published in English translation. He lives in Paris.