
In Spite of the Dark Silence
Jorge Volpi(Author)
Swan Isle Press
Will be published approx. on 15. January 2011
Book
Hardback
120 pages
978-0-9748881-8-7 (ISBN)
Description
'He was named Jorge, like me, and for this his life hurts me twice.' So writes Jorge Volpi in this highly original novel that presents a biographical perspective on the tragic life of the poet and chemist Jorge Cuesta. Cuesta was one of the founders of Los Contemporaneos, an influential twentieth-century literary movement. The poetic voice of Cuesta's verses can be heard throughout, offering insights into the creative and destructive forces and impulses in his work that eventually led to a mental ward - and a shocking suicide at thirty-eight. The fictional 'Jorge', as narrator, embarks on an obsessive quest to understand the life of the long-dead poet, with the distance between subject and researcher blurring as he finds himself struggling to understand his own life. It is a brave search for anyone willing to gaze into the mirror of mortality 'in spite of the dark silence.'
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9748881-8-7 (9780974888187)
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01/2011
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Person
Jorge Volpi, the author of Season of Ash, among other books, is one of the founders of the influential literary movement The Crack. In Spite of the Dark Silence was his first novel, published when he was just twenty-four. Olivia Maciel is visiting professor in the Honors College at the University of Illinois at Chicago.