Descripción de contraportada
Quarantine is the newest novel by one of Spain's most provocative writers. The novel 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.
Detalles
- Título Quarantine
- Autor Juan Goytisolo; Peter Bush (Translator)
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First American E
- Páginas 112
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL
- Fecha de publicación 1994-04
- ISBN 9781564780447 / 1564780449
- Peso 0.77 libras (0.35 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.82 x 5.77 x 0.6 pulgadas (22.40 x 14.66 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Limbo - Fiction, Writing - Fiction
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 93029198
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Kirkus Reviews, 03/01/1994, Page 234
- Library Journal, 03/01/1994, Page 117
- Publishers Weekly, 03/07/1994, Page 55
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