Senselessness
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Description
A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army's massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. The writer's job is to tidy it up: he rants, that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and giving a manicure to the Catholic hands that were piously getting ready to squeeze the balls of the military tiger. Mesmerized by the strange Vallejo-like poetry of the Indians' phrases (the houses they were sad because no people were inside them), the increasingly agitated and frightened writer is endangered twice over: by the spell the strangely beautiful heart-rending voices exert over his tenuous sanity, and by real danger--after all, the murderers are the very generals who still run this unnamed Latin American country.
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Product details
- Paperback | 160 pages
- 135 x 203 x 13mm | 180g
- 23 May 2008
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- New York, United States
- English
- 0811217078
- 9780811217071
- 159,643
Review quote
He has put El Salvador on the literary map.--Natasha Wimmer "The Nation"
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