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Hallucinations: Or, the Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando
Reinaldo Arenas
Häftad
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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 romantic, melancholy and profound-a tale rooted in history, yet outrageously hallucinatory.
"An impenitent amalgam of truth and invention, historical fact and outrageous make-believe . . . a philosophical black comedy."-The New York Times
"An impenitent amalgam of truth and invention, historical fact and outrageous make-believe . . . a philosophical black comedy."-The New York Times
- Format: Häftad
- ISBN: 9780142000199
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 288
- Utgivningsdatum: 2001-12-01
- Översättare: Andrew Hurley
- Förlag: Penguin Books