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The blind rider / Juan Goytisolo ; translated by Peter Bush.
- Title
- The blind rider / Juan Goytisolo ; translated by Peter Bush.
- Author
- Goytisolo, Juan
- Publication
- London : Serpent's Tail, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PQ6613.O79 T4513 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bush, Peter R., 1946-
- Description
- iii, 119 p.; 18 cm.
- Summary
- "In this novel a melancholy old man reviews the precious moments of his life amid the disasters of contemporary history. Years of love end with the death of his wife. He remembers tender moments with his mother, killed in a bomb-blast unleashed by Fascists on Barcelona. The narrator engages with the writings of Tolstoy, an enlightened aristocrat who wished to free his serfs and bring up their children with progressive, humanist principles. Tolstoy's characters embody dreams of a more intense, varied life: a utopian literary freedom. Like the books of W. G. Sebald and Italo Calvino, The Blind Rider is a fictional memoir of the last fifty years that is both personal and political. Tender at a personal level, it is at a political level an angry rant at God's lack of humanity."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Telon de boca. English
- Alternative Title
- Telon de boca.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Note
- "First published in 2003 as Telon de Boca by El Aleph Editores, S.A."--T.p. verso.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Spanish.
- ISBN
- 1852428635 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 60560940
- SCSB-10804279
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library