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In the brilliant tradition of Don Quixote and Candide, this passionate novel by the author of Before Night Falls is a modern masterpiece of Latin American fiction. Fray Servando--priest, blasphemer, dueler of monsters, irresistible lover, misunderstood prophet, prisoner, and consummate escape artist--wanders among the vice-ridden populations of eighteenth-century Europe and the Americas, fleeing dungeons, a marriage-minded woman, a slave ship captain, and the Inquisition. Whether by burro, by boat, or by the back of a whale, Fray Servando's journey is at once funny and romantic, melancholy and profound--a tale rooted in history, yet outrageously hallucinatory. "An impenitent amalgam of truth and invention, historical fact and outrageous make-believe . . . a philosophical black comedy."--The New York Times… (altro)
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And I too have been lacerated by the thorns of this desert, and have each day left something of my remains. -- Chateaubriand, Les Martyrs, Book 10.
The first thing to enhance you will be the quality of an Eagle, of a Jaguar, the Holy Water, arrow and shield; this is what you shall eat, what you shall have need of; so that you shall go striking fear; in return for your courage you shall go victorious and destroy. -- Cristobal de Castillo. Fragmentos de la Obra General Sobre Historia de los Mexicanos.
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Dedicated to Camila Henriquez Urena, Virgilio Pinera for their intellectual integrity
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Dear Servando, Ever since I discovered you in an execrable history of Mexican literature, described as 'the friar who had travelled over the whole of Europe on foot having improbably adventures', I have been trying everywhere to find out more about you.
In the brilliant tradition of Don Quixote and Candide, this passionate novel by the author of Before Night Falls is a modern masterpiece of Latin American fiction. Fray Servando--priest, blasphemer, dueler of monsters, irresistible lover, misunderstood prophet, prisoner, and consummate escape artist--wanders among the vice-ridden populations of eighteenth-century Europe and the Americas, fleeing dungeons, a marriage-minded woman, a slave ship captain, and the Inquisition. Whether by burro, by boat, or by the back of a whale, Fray Servando's journey is at once funny and romantic, melancholy and profound--a tale rooted in history, yet outrageously hallucinatory. "An impenitent amalgam of truth and invention, historical fact and outrageous make-believe . . . a philosophical black comedy."--The New York Times
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