| Abrupt Mutations Contributor(s): Revol, Enrique Luis (Author), Hunter, Priscilla (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1628972319 ISBN-13: 9781628972313 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: 863.64 |
| LCCN: 2017057601 |
| Series: Agentenian Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.90 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Abrupt Mutations leads the reader on a humorous, meandering tour of 1960s Megalopolis, at the heart of which is a hotly anticipated gathering of the city's culturati at the home of O Jango, a Brazilian billionaire and aesthete equally revered and reviled by his fellow Megalopolitans. Parodying a number of literary styles, including the detective novel and science fiction, Revol's novel is first and foremost a Menippean satire of the cosmopolitan west in the sixties, detailing hilariously but humanely the lives of intellectual and artistic migr 's who have fled from dictatorships and found in their adopted city opportunities for personal freedom and pleasure they previously could never have dreamed of. |