La cuarentena
Quarantine, a novel by one of Spain s most provocative writers, recounts the forty days in which, according to Islamic tradition, the soul wanders between death and eternity, still in possession of a tenuous, dreamlike body. After the unexpected death of a friend, the narrator a writer like Goytisolo follows her in his imagination into this otherworld where all kinds of implausible (or are they?) things occur. Meanwhile, television and radio report the 40-day war in the Persian Gulf, and images of war s destruction mingle with the narrator s vivid imagination of the torments of the underworld. Simultaneously, the narrator is writing the novel we are reading, for writing itself is a kind of quarantine where the writer withdraws from the world to wander in the otherworld of the imagination. Quarantine is thus both an exploration of the human condition and an investigation of the writing process. It celebrates friendship and denounces war with equal force, and despite the grim themes is filled with humor, shocking surprises, playful language, and love."
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1564780449
ISBN13:9781564780447
Release Date:April 1994
Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
Length:112 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 8.8"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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Magnificent journey into a land between life and death
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Goytisolo continues one of the boldest adventures in modern literature with this eloquent journey into the world between life and death where, according to Muslim belief, the soul lingers on its way to final judgment. Written in Goytisolo's hallmark style of dark lyricism, in an intense, almost oratorical, diction, the novel transcends the possibility of its own genre - it quarantines you the reader in a dark and fierce joy before releasing you into the questionable light.
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