Book
Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador
New Directions paperbook, New Directions Books
2016
Abstract
An expatriate professor, Vega, returns from exile in Canada to El Salvador for his mother's funeral. A sensitive idealist and an aggrieved motor mouth, he sits at a bar with the author, Castellanos Moya, from five to seven in the evening, telling his tale and ranting against everything his country has to offer. Written in a single paragraph and alive with a fury as astringent as the wrath of Thomas Bernhard, Revulsion was first published in 1997 and earned its author death threats. Roberto Bolano called Revulsion Castellanos Moya's darkest book and perhaps his best: "A parody of certain works by Bernhard and the kind of book that makes you laugh out loud."
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador
- Creators
- Horacio Castellanos MoyaLee Klein
- Resource Type
- Book
- Series
- New Directions paperbook
- ISBN
- 9780811223430; 0811225399; 0811223434; 9780811225397
- Publisher
- New Directions Books; New York
- Number of pages
- 88 pages
- Alternative title
- English
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2016
- Academic Unit
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Record Identifier
- 9984398938902771
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