Publisher:University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, United States, 2009
Binding:Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket:No
University of Nebraska Press, 2009, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No
Black cloth, with some very light marks but otherwise as new. - A masterpiece of modernist fiction about one man's search for meaning, Dream of Reason (La sinrazon) reveals Rosa Chacel as an intellectual and literary innovator whose work stands alongside that of Joyce, Proust, and Woolf. This meditative novel, grounded in the thinking of Spain's great modern philosopher Ortega y Gasset, unfolds as the journal of a bourgeois chemist who makes his way in Buenos Aires just before and during the Spanish Civil War. Tracing his relationship with three women, Santiago Hernandez explores the power of his own intentions and the limits of human reason. His introspective experiment, set against the background of world-altering events, documents the workings of a self-absorbed mind speculating on the inseparability of self and circumstance and is a brilliant enactment of how, from such tensions, narrative emerges. Size: Octavo. 718 pages. Category: Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; ISBN: 0803214731. ISBN/EAN: 9780803214736.
Black cloth, with some very light marks but otherwise as new. - A masterpiece of modernist fiction about one man's search for meaning, Dream of Reason (La sinrazon) reveals Rosa Chacel as an intellectual and literary innovator whose work stands alongside that of Joyce, Proust, and Woolf. This meditative novel, grounded in the thinking of Spain's great modern philosopher Ortega y Gasset, unfolds as the journal of a bourgeois chemist who makes his way in Buenos Aires just before and during the Spanish Civil War. Tracing his relationship with three women, Santiago Hernandez explores the power of his own intentions and the limits of human reason. His introspective experiment, set against the background of world-altering events, documents the workings of a self-absorbed mind speculating on the inseparability of self and circumstance and is a brilliant enactment of how, from such tensions, narrative emerges. Size: Octavo. 718 pages. Category: Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; ISBN: 0803214731. ISBN/EAN: 9780803214736.