Senselessness

Senselessness
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9780811219846
ISBN-13 : 0811219844
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Book Synopsis Senselessness by : Horacio Castellanos Moya

Download or read book Senselessness written by Horacio Castellanos Moya and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-17 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner from the Black Mountain Institute: Senselessness, acclaimed Salvadoran author Horacio Castallanos Moya's astounding debut in English, explores horror with hilarity and electrifying panache. A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army's massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. The writer's job is to tidy it up: he rants, "that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and giving a manicure to the Catholic hands that were piously getting ready to squeeze the balls of the military tiger." Mesmerized by the strange Vallejo-like poetry of the Indians' phrases ("the houses they were sad because no people were inside them"), the increasingly agitated and frightened writer is endangered twice over: by the spell the strangely beautiful heart-rending voices exert over his tenuous sanity, and by real danger—after all, the murderers are the very generals who still run this unnamed Latin American country.


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