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IN SPITE OF THE DARK SILENCE
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| By: |
Jorge Volpi, Olivia Maciel (Trans) |
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Hardback |
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£21.00 |
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£18.90 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0974888184 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780974888187 |
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| Publisher: |
SWAN ISLE PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 January, 2011 |
| Pages: |
140 |
| Description: |
Presents a biographical perspective on the tragic life of the poet and chemist Jorge Cuesta. Cuesta was one of the founders of Los Contemporaneos, an influential twentieth-century literary movement. |
| Synopsis: |
'He was named Jorge, like me, and for this his life hurts me twice.' So writes Jorge Volpi in this highly original novel that presents a biographical perspective on the tragic life of the poet and chemist Jorge Cuesta. Cuesta was one of the founders of Los Contemporaneos, an influential twentieth-century literary movement. The poetic voice of Cuesta's verses can be heard throughout, offering insights into the creative and destructive forces and impulses in his work that eventually led to a mental ward - and a shocking suicide at thirty-eight. The fictional 'Jorge', as narrator, embarks on an obsessive quest to understand the life of the long-dead poet, with the distance between subject and researcher blurring as he finds himself struggling to understand his own life. It is a brave search for anyone willing to gaze into the mirror of mortality 'in spite of the dark silence.' |
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US |
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Swan Isle Press |
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