Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel
At 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 the backgrounds of the masked revelers,...
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At 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 the backgrounds of the masked revelers, while Rios's allusive language shows that words too wear masks, hiding an astonishing range of further meanings and implications. Larva introduces the English tradition of puns, palindromes, and acrostics, and establishes Rios as the most accomplished successor to Joyce.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781564783684 (1564783685)
Publish date: September 1st 2004
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Pages no: 545
Edition language: English
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