{"product_id":"larva","title":"Larva","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Midsummer Night's Babel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Julián Ríos\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Richard Alan Francis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781628977080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781628977097\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 22nd, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst published in Spain in 1983 and proclaimed “an instant postmodern classic” (Encyclopedia Britannica), \u003cem\u003eLarva\u003c\/em\u003e is a rollicking account of a masquerade party in an abandoned mansion in London.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMilalias (disguised as Don Juan) searches for Babelle (as Sleeping Beauty) through a linguistic funhouse of polylingual puns and wordplay recalling Joyce’s \u003cem\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/em\u003e. A mock-scholarly commentary reveals the backgrounds of the masked revelers, while Ríos’s punning and allusive language shows that words, too, wear masks, hiding an astonishing range of further meanings and implications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLarva\u003c\/em\u003e’s tale, a reassessment of the Don Juan myth in our time, is told in single-minded pursuit of double meanings, but it is serious play. It revives a Hispanic tradition repressed for centuries by introducing the Madhatter English tradition of puns, palindromes, and acrostics, by creating Joycean echoes and pushing language to its maximum connotative capacity. \u003cem\u003eLarva\u003c\/em\u003e has been praised by such leading Spanish-language writers as Carlos Fuentes, Juan Goytisolo, and Severo Sarduy, and establishes Ríos as the most accomplished successor to Joyce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJulián Ríos\u003c\/strong\u003e is Spain’s foremost postmodernist writer. He was born in Galicia in 1941 and educated primarily in Madrid. His best-known work is Larva, an experimental novel that has been the subject of many studies. During the seventies he was an important publisher, creating and running the Espiral collection of Fundamentos, a Madrid publishing house. The collection included books by Thomas Pynchon, John Barth and Severo Sarduy. A contributor to various magazines, both Spanish and foreign, he currently lives in France, on the outskirts of Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving translated Manuel Puig, Julio Cortazar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and other notable authors, \u003cstrong\u003eSuzanne Jill Levine\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of the most highly regarded translators of contemporary Latin American literature. She is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49327291531419,"sku":"9781628977080","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":49327291564187,"sku":"9781628977097","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0594\/2915\/9067\/files\/DAP_CoverPlaceholderImage.jpg?v=1786994364","url":"https:\/\/dalkeyarchive.store\/products\/larva","provider":"Dalkey Archive Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}