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Hallucinations: Or, the Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando

Hallucinations: Or, the Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando - Paperback

by Reinaldo Arenas
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Availability:In StockContributor:Reinaldo Arenas, Andrew Hurley (Translator), Thomas Colchie (Introduction by)Publish date:2001-12-31Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780142000199ISBN-10:142000191UPC:9780142000199Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, FantasyBook Topic:HistoricalSize:7.72 x 5.08 x 0.54 inchesWeight:0.4299Product ID:SC5QTT6K0V
In the brilliant tradition of Don Quixote and Candide, this passionate novel by the author of Before Night Falls is a modern masterpiece of Latin American fiction. Fray Servando--priest, blasphemer, dueler of monsters, irresistible lover, misunderstood prophet, prisoner, and consummate escape artist--wanders among the vice-ridden populations of eighteenth-century Europe and the Americas, fleeing dungeons, a marriage-minded woman, a slave ship captain, and the Inquisition. Whether by burro, by boat, or by the back of a whale, Fray Servando's journey is at once funny and romantic, melancholy and profound--a tale rooted in history, yet outrageously hallucinatory.

"An impenitent amalgam of truth and invention, historical fact and outrageous make-believe . . . a philosophical black comedy."--The New York Times
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780142000199ISBN-10:142000191UPC:9780142000199Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, FantasyBook Topic:HistoricalSize:7.72 x 5.08 x 0.54 inchesWeight:0.4299Product ID:SC5QTT6K0V
Reinaldo Arenas was born in Cuba in 1943. In 1980, he was one of 120,000 Cubans who arrived in the United States on the Mariel boatlift. Arenas settled in New York where he lived until his death from AIDS ten years later.
Andrew Hurley is a translator of numerous works of literature, criticism, history, and memoir. He is professor emeritus at the University of Puerto Rico.

Thomas Colchie is an acclaimed translator, editor, and literary agent for international authors. He is the editor of A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes. He has written for the Village Voice and The Washington Post. His translations include Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman and (with Elizabeth Bishop, Gregory Rabassa, and Mark Strand) Carlos Drummond de Andrade's Travelling in the Family.


Publisher: Penguin Books

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Reinaldo Arenas, Andrew Hurley (Translator), Thomas Colchie (Introduction by)

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Reinaldo Arenas

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