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🦋 Brand new
A journey through labyrinths of identity, of degradation and oblivion. Donoso's opus magnum, says the back jacket (rubbing my fingers in antici-pation, as Frankenfurter might say) -- on Bolaño's recommendation, that to call Donoso the best Chilean novelist of the century would be to insult him.
posted evening of Thursday, December 6th, 2012
Beautiful epigraph!
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential dearth in which its subject's roots are plunged. The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters.
-- Henry James Sr., writing to his sons Henry and William.
This book was written in the year of my birth.
posted evening of December 6th, 2012 by peter conlay
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