In Spite of the Dark Silence
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A01=Jorge Volpi
Author_Jorge Volpi
B06=Olivia Maciel
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IMPN=Swan Isle Press
ISBN13=9780974888187
Language_English
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Subject=Modern & Contemporary Fiction
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Product details
- ISBN 9780974888187
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2011
- Publisher: Swan Isle Press
- Publication City/Country: Chicago, US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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'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.'
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.
