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The Abyss

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Finally, the Colombian Fernando Vallejo’s masterpiece, The Abyss , is available in English in a stunning translation by Yvette Siegert Winner of the Rómulo Gallego Prize, The Abyss is a caustic masterwork of incredible power and force, an unforgettable autobiographical work of queer fiction. The novel tells about the demise of a crumbling house in Medellín, Colombia. Fernando, a writer, visits his brother Darío, who is dying of AIDS. Recounting their wild philandering and trying to come to terms with his beloved brother’s inevitable death, Fernando rants against the political forces that cause so much suffering. Vallejo is the heir to Céline, Thomas Paine, and Machado de Assis. He hurls vitriolic, savagely funny insults at his country and at his mother who has given birth to him and his many siblings. Within this firestorm of pain, Fernando manages to get across much beauty and that all love is painful and washed in pure sorrow. He loves his sick brother and the family’s Santa Anita farm ; and he even loves his country, now torn to shreds. Always, in this savage masterpiece about loss―as if in the eye of Vallejo’s hurricane of talent―we are in the curiously comforting workings of memory and of the writing process itself, as, recollecting time, it offers immortality.

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 2002

ISBN 13: 9780811238519

The Abyss

0/5 ( ratings)

Finally, the Colombian Fernando Vallejo’s masterpiece, The Abyss , is available in English in a stunning translation by Yvette Siegert Winner of the Rómulo Gallego Prize, The Abyss is a caustic masterwork of incredible power and force, an unforgettable autobiographical work of queer fiction. The novel tells about the demise of a crumbling house in Medellín, Colombia. Fernando, a writer, visits his brother Darío, who is dying of AIDS. Recounting their wild philandering and trying to come to terms with his beloved brother’s inevitable death, Fernando rants against the political forces that cause so much suffering. Vallejo is the heir to Céline, Thomas Paine, and Machado de Assis. He hurls vitriolic, savagely funny insults at his country and at his mother who has given birth to him and his many siblings. Within this firestorm of pain, Fernando manages to get across much beauty and that all love is painful and washed in pure sorrow. He loves his sick brother and the family’s Santa Anita farm ; and he even loves his country, now torn to shreds. Always, in this savage masterpiece about loss―as if in the eye of Vallejo’s hurricane of talent―we are in the curiously comforting workings of memory and of the writing process itself, as, recollecting time, it offers immortality.

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 2002

ISBN 13: 9780811238519

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