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Rios, Julian

 
9780375700606: Loves That Bind
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ISBN 10: 0375700609 ISBN 13: 9780375700606
Editorial: Vintage Books, 1999

Sinopsis

One of Spain's most accomplished novelists presents an erotic, linguistically playful adventure featuring a Londoner who tries to win back his true love by recounting his sexual exploits in the style of the classics of the twentieth century. Reprint.

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Julián Ríos was born in Galicia, Spain. He contributes to journals in various countries and has edited several fiction and essay series. His fifteen previous books, translated into several languages, include the novels Larva, Poundemonium, and Kitaj: Pictures and Conversations. He lives in Paris and Madrid.


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Spain's most distinguished--and daring--writers comes this intensely erotic and shamelessly literary adventure through the streets of London.

Emil, the mysterious narrator, has been abandoned by the woman he loves. Filled with doubt and nostalgia, bent on therapy or distraction or revenge, he wanders the city in search of her. Driven by the anguish of rejection and desire, he writes twenty-six letters to his fugitive lover, each an intricately detailed account of his affairs with twenty-six women who
preceded her. Each of these figures bears an uncanny resemblance to a famous literary heroine, from Proust's Albertine to Fitzgerald's Daisy to Nabokov's Lolita to Queneau's Zazie.

One by one, in alphabetical order, Emil's letters adopt the tone, style, and substance of the great novelists of the twentieth century, while, in recollection, his past love affairs grow increasingly extravagant and hallucinatory. As we follow his physical and creative journey, we try to unrave

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Editorial
Vintage Books
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0375700609
ISBN 13 
9780375700606
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9780375400582: Loves That Bind

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ISBN 10:  0375400583 ISBN 13:  9780375400582
Editorial: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998
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