Book
Senselessness
New Directions
2008
Abstract
"An alcoholic, atheist, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to edit the testimonies of the survivors of slaughtered Indian villages. The writer's job is to tidy up the 1,100 page report: "that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and giving a manicure to the Catholic hands that were piously getting ready to squeeze the balls of the military tiger." Mesmerized by the eerie poetry of the Indians' phrases, the increasingly agitated and frightened writer is endangered twice over: by the spell exerted over his somewhat tenuous sanity by the strangely beautiful heart-rending voices, and by real danger. The Church is hunting the military, but the military is still in charge of the country, and our booze-soaked writer is soon among the hunted - or is he paranoid? Or is he paranoid and one of the hunted?"--Jacket.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Senselessness
- Creators
- Horacio Castellanos Moya - University of Iowa, Spanish and Portuguese
- Contributors
- Katherine Silver (Translator)
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780811217071; 0811217078
- Publisher
- New Directions; New York
- Number of pages
- 142 pages
- Translated title
- Insensatez
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2008
- Academic Unit
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Record Identifier
- 9983949676202771
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