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Book has very light wear tp spine ends. Otherwise pristine. DJ has faint rubbing to covers and faint wear at head of spine. A very very nice copy. In a protective Brodart mylar cover.
Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel by Julian Rios - 1990
by Julian Rios
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Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel
by Julian Rios
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United States of America: Dalkey Archive Press, 1990. 545 pages plus index and photo album containg black and white photos. First published in Spain in 1983 and proclaimed an instant postmodern classic, without a doubt the most disturbingly original Spanish prose of the century (Encyclopedia Britannica 1985 Book of the Year), 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) though a linguistic fun house of polylingual puns and wordplay recalling Joyces Finnegans Wake. A mock-scholarly commentary reveals the backgrounds of the masked revelers, while Ríoss punning and allusive language shows that words, too, wear masks, hiding an astonishing range of further meanings and implications. Larvas tale, a reassessment of the Don Juan myth in our time, is told in single-minded pursuit of double meanings, but it is serious play. It revives a Hispanic tradition repressed for centuries by introducing the Madhatter English tradition of puns, palindromes, and acrostics, by creating Joycean echoes and pushing language to its maximum connotative capacity. Larva has been praised by such leading Spanish-language writers as Carlos Fuentes, Juan Goytisolo, and Severo Sarduy, and establishes Ríos as the most accomplished successor to Joyce.. 1st. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Literature.
- Bookseller First Landing Books & Art (US)
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- Book Condition Used - Very Good
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- Edition 1st
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- ISBN 10 091658366X
- ISBN 13 9780916583668
- Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
- Place of Publication United States of America
- Date Published 1990
- Keywords Larva Julian Rios Julien Midsummer Night's Nights Babel Spain black White b&w 1983 Postmodern Post-Modern Classic Prose Masquerade Party London Mansion Abandoned Milalias Don Juan Babelle Joyce Finnegans Wake Myth Hispanic Spanish Madhatter Englis
- Size 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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by Rios, Julian
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Dalkey Archive Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x2x9. Translated by Richard Alan Francis with Suzanne Jill Levine and the author. First edition stated. Straight binding with light wear to extremities, top front corner gently bumped. Very light soiling and isolated wear to top edge of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows light handling/rubbing and two areas of tiny bite marks to both panels. Presents nicely in a mylar cover. 8vo. 585pp.
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