The Last Song of Manuel Sendero - Softcover

Dorfman, Ariel; Shivers, George R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140088962 ISBN 13: 9780140088960

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1988

Synopsis

Denying the future until government leaders end repression, revolutionary fetuses refusing to be born begin to argue amongst themselves and one by one choose to be born until only the son of Manuel Sendero is left

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Language Notes:

Text: English, Spanish (translation)

From Library Journal:

Dorfman's novel, a recent addition to the growing corpus of Chilean exile literature, relates the futuristic exploits of a politically asphyxiated dictatorship. By meshing disparate elements (the propagandistic functions of comic strips, archeological pseudo-scholarship, the mythic satire of fetal rebellion as children refuse to be born into the world as it is), Dorfman has created a ponderous, provocative, if somewhat abstruse and wearisome experimental narrative that, despite its finely wrought translation, will reward persistent readers only. For comprehensive fiction collections. Lawrence Olszewski, OCLC, Dublin, Ohio
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0140088962
• ISBN 13: 9780140088960
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464