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This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English.
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A bestseller for several months after its 1989 publication in Chile, this novel sends an unwitting director of television commercials into a labyrinth of political intrigue. Unsure whether he is being persecuted or canonized by a host of vaguely defined political factions, Tito Livio Trivi?o stumbles trough the Chilean capital of Santiago. At El Limbo, an underground night club, he encounters Latin American visionaries: Sigmund Freud Romero, Pedro Nietzsche and "Marcelito Aceituno, the Proust of Las Condes, who discovered that memory only serves to remember what's useless... and he wrote infinite tomes which no one ever wanted to publish in this isolated country, buried by envy, captured by copying, plagiarism and innuendo." De la Parra's self-aware narrative invokes sources as seemingly divergent as the Beatles' Yellow Submarine and Jorge Luis Borges. Although the narrative drive is hampered by its under-developed characters, this Kakfaesque psycho-political anatomy of Santiago is long on ideas and stylish prose. A psychiatrist and playwright whose The Raw, the Cooked and the Rotten was banned under Pinochet, de la Parra is one of Chile's "new generation" of writers, whose work, one hopes, will become more widely available in the United States.
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paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. First Edition. Brooklyn. 1994. Interlink Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 156656123x. Translated from the Spanish by Charles P. Thomas. Emerging Voices series. 319 pages. paperback. Cover design: Dialog Design, Inc. Cover Illustration: Ellen Grobman. keywords: Latin America Chile Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - This novel is a modern Latin American classic of magical realism. When it was published in Chile in 1989, its combination of political satire, suspenseful plot structure, and corrosive humor kept it at the top fo the Chilean best-seller list for many months. Marco Antonio de la Parra, variously harassed, censored and sometimes banned under the Pinochet regime, has created a bizarre, anarchic novel which lays bare the psyche of that troubled nation. Tito Livio Trivino is a disillusioned and cynical advertising agent in Santiago who suddenly finds himself swept up in a whirlwind of strange and terrifying events. He discovers that his father was a double agent for both God and the Devil; that he is carrying the key to the fourth and final letter of the Tetragrammaton, which will determine the future of Chile, and ultimately the whole of humankind and that all at once it seems as if everybody is trying to kill him. inventory #41094. Seller Inventory # z41094