Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel

by Julián Ríos

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A striking reassessment of the Don Juan myth. A literary tour de force, this extraordinary novel is told in single-minded pursuit of double meanings, but it is serious play. Larva is a rollicking account of a masquerade party in an abandoned mansion in London. Milalias (disguised as Don Juan) searches for Babelle (as Sleeping Beauty) through a linguistic funhouse of puns and wordplay recalling Joyce's Finnegans Wake. A mock-scholarly commentary reveals...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1564783685

ISBN13:9781564783684

Release Date:November 1990

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Length:545 Pages

Weight:2.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Contemporary Education & Reference Fiction Language Arts Literature & Fiction Spanish & Portuguese World Literature

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