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Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel

3.8/5 ( ratings)

A striking reassessment of the Don Juan myth. A literary tour de force, this extraordinary novel is told in single-minded pursuit of double meanings, but it is serious play. Larva is a rollicking account of a masquerade party in an abandoned mansion in London. Milalias searches for Babelle through a linguistic funhouse of puns and wordplay recalling Joyce's Finnegans Wake. A mock-scholarly commentary reveals the backgrounds of the masked revellers, while Rios' allusive language shows that words too wear masks, hiding an astonishing range of further meanings and implications. Larva revives a Hispanic tradition repressed for centuries by introducing the English tradition of puns, palindromes and acrostics and establishes Rios as the most accomplished successor to Joyce.

Language: English

Pages: 545

Format: Paperback

Release: November 01, 1984

ISBN 13: 9781564783684

Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel

3.8/5 ( ratings)

A striking reassessment of the Don Juan myth. A literary tour de force, this extraordinary novel is told in single-minded pursuit of double meanings, but it is serious play. Larva is a rollicking account of a masquerade party in an abandoned mansion in London. Milalias searches for Babelle through a linguistic funhouse of puns and wordplay recalling Joyce's Finnegans Wake. A mock-scholarly commentary reveals the backgrounds of the masked revellers, while Rios' allusive language shows that words too wear masks, hiding an astonishing range of further meanings and implications. Larva revives a Hispanic tradition repressed for centuries by introducing the English tradition of puns, palindromes and acrostics and establishes Rios as the most accomplished successor to Joyce.

Language: English

Pages: 545

Format: Paperback

Release: November 01, 1984

ISBN 13: 9781564783684

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