Larva

Name: Larva
Brand: Deep Vellum Publishing
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A Midsummer Night's Babel

By: Julian Rios, Richard Alan Francis (Translator), Suzanne Jill Levine (As told to)

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Paperback | 7 February 1991

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Paperback
545 Pages

Edition Type
New edition

Age
22+

Dimensions(cm)
21.5 x 13.9 x 4.2

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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 (disguised as Don Juan) searches for Babelle (as Sleeping Beauty) 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 (a word puzzle in which certain letters in each line form a word or words) and establishes Rios as the most accomplished successor (in any language) to Joyce.

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"Larva is a great novel of language. This adventure in the Spanish language easily translates into English because the creative urge is the same in both, and because Rios is the most cosmopolitan of contemporary writers."--Carlos Fuentes

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