Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Life and Adventures of Friar Servando Teresa De Mier - Softcover

Arenas, Reinaldo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140038957 ISBN 13: 9780140038958

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 1976

Synopsis

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"

About this title

About the Author:

Reinaldo Arenas was born in Cuba in 1943. In 1980, he was one of 120,000 Cubans who arrived in the United States on the Mariel boatlift. Arenas settled in New York where he lived until his death from AIDS ten years later.
Andrew Hurley is a translator of numerous works of literature, criticism, history, and memoir. He is professor emeritus at the University of Puerto Rico.

Thomas Colchie is an acclaimed translator, editor, and literary agent for international authors. He is the editor of A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes. He has written for the Village Voice and The Washington Post. His translations include Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman and (with Elizabeth Bishop, Gregory Rabassa, and Mark Strand) Carlos Drummond de Andrade's Travelling in the Family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0140038957
• ISBN 13: 9780140038958
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256