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Title: Witness (Masks) by Juan Jose Saer, Margaret Jull Costa ISBN: 1-85242-184-3 Publisher: Serpent's Tail Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: the new world overrun
Comment: There are several books to which this one may be compared. I do not know which comparison will resound usefully for readers of this review but such framing may help clarify the nature of The Witness. It resembles in its adventures at sea and semiotic ambages, Eco's The Island of the Day Before. It obliquely resembles in its conclusion, some of the theatrical circumstances of Unsworth's Morality Play. In its approach to a group of people encountered by Europeans, it resembles writings of Levi-Strauss, or anthropologists and mythographers of his ilk. These comparisons may not entirely indicate the quality of description in many sections of this book, nor the entrancing tale told by a young man whose voice testifies to his survival for some time as an outsider in a most curious and vibrant new world culture. The book has sexy parts and bucolic parts, character-driven excitements and pleasing resolutions to momentarily intractable mires, cannibalism and monasticism. On the whole it is a fabulously enchanting and improbable survivor's tale anachronistically enriched by wanderings in some of the many-mirrored halls of late twentieth century, French intellectualism.
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Title: Loon Lake by E. L. Doctorow ISBN: 0452275687 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Quicksand (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Nella Larsen, Thadious M. Davis ISBN: 0141181273 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Krik? Krak! (Vintage Contemporaries) by Edwidge Danticat ISBN: 067976657X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Maltese Falcon (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Dashiell Hammett ISBN: 0679722645 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Three Lives (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Gertrude Stein ISBN: 0140181849 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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