Hallucinations: Or, the Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando
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In the brilliant tradition of Don Quixote and Candide, Hallucinations is a modern masterpiece of Latin American fiction. Fray Servando-priest, blasphemer, dueler of monsters, irresistible lover, misunderstood prophet, prisoner, and consummate escape artist-wanders among the vice-ridden populations of eighteenth-century Europe and the Americas, fleeing dungeons, a marriage-minded female, a slaveship captain, and the Inquisition. Whether by burro, by boat, or by the back of a whale, Fray Servando's journey is at once funny and romantic, melancholy and profound-a tale rooted in history, yet outrageously hallucinatory.
"An impenitent amalgam of truth and invention, historical fact and outrageous make-believe. . . . A philosophical black comedy." (The New York Times)
About the Author
Reinaldo Arenas was born in Cuba in 1943. In 1980 he was one of 120,000 Cubans who arrived in the United States during the Mariel boatlift. Arenas settled in New York where he lived until his death in 1990.
Hallucinations: or, The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando,Reinaldo Arenas,Thomas Colchie,Andrew Hurley,Penguin (Non-Classics),0142000191,Fiction,Fiction - Historical,Historical - General,Literary,Fiction / Literary
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