Truck of Fools: A Testimonio of Torture and Recovery - Hardcover

Carlos Liscano

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826514642 ISBN 13: 9780826514646

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004

Synopsis

A political dissident who was jailed and tortured by Uruguay’s military regime, Carlos Liscano movingly recounts those experiences in Truck of Fools. His narrative, a mosaic of brief, powerful vignettes, offers unique insight into the physical and psychological plight of the prisoner, as well as into the mindset of his tormentors. Liscano survived these horrors to become a gifted writer and Uruguay’s most well known novelist.

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About the Author:

Carlos Liscano resides in Montevideo, where he was born in 1949. Following his release from prison in 1985, he lived until 1996 in Sweden. The author of three novels as well as collections of short stories, poems, and dramatic monologues, he has been active in organizing a national group in Uruguay to support writers. A one-act play based on Truck of Fools was recently produced in Washington, D.C.

Elizabeth Hampsten teaches English at the University of North Dakota. Dividing her time since 1989 between the United States and Uruguay, where she conducts seminars on testimonio (or life writing). Her books include Read This Only to Yourself: The Private Writings of Midwestern Women, 1880–1910, Settlers’ Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains, and the translation of Uruguay: Nunca Mas by the human rights organization SERPAJ-Uruguay.

Review:

Highly recommended.
Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0826514642
• ISBN 13: 9780826514646
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 120