The Obscene Bird of Night (Verba Mundi)
This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by Luis Bunuel and "one of the great novels not only of Spanish America, but of our time" by Carlos Fuentes. The story of the last member of the aristocratic Azcoitia family, a monstrous mutation protected from the knowledge of...
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This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by Luis Bunuel and "one of the great novels not only of Spanish America, but of our time" by Carlos Fuentes. The story of the last member of the aristocratic Azcoitia family, a monstrous mutation protected from the knowledge of his deformity by being surrounded with other freaks as companions, The Obscene Bird of Night is a triumph of imaginative, visionary writing. Its luxuriance, fecundity, horror, and energy will not soon fade from the reader's mind. (Verba Mundi)
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781567920468 (1567920462)
ASIN: 1567920462
Publish date: 1995-12-01
Publisher: David R Godine
Pages no: 438
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Horror,
Magical Realism,
Spanish Literature,
Latin American,
Latin American Literature,
Fiction
The Obscene Bird of Night is one strange, twisted, haunting, obscene book! It may well be the most difficult novel I've read so far. There were moments when I felt that I could connect to it and even understand it, but most of the time I felt like floating inside a grotesque nightmare, with walled-u...
I just couldn't, guys.I picked this up because A) the author is Chilean, like me, and B) I ADORE experimental literature. Still, this one...it just got too weird for me at times, and that was distracting.What I did enjoy was the symbolism, the array of characters, the overall comments on sexuality a...