In Spite of the Dark Silence
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In Spite of the Dark Silence

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Full Title

In Spite of the Dark Silence
Author(s)

Jorge Volpi
Edition
ISBN

9780983322016, 9780974888187
Publisher

Swan Isle Press
Format

PDF and EPUB

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 Contemporáneos, 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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