The Dream of My Return - Softcover

Castellanos Moya, Horacio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811223434 ISBN 13: 9780811223430

Publisher: New Directions, 2015

Synopsis

High-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home at the tail end of El Salvador's long civil war.

Is the plan a dream or a nightmare?

Is he courageous, foolhardy, or just plain dumb?

Is the bubbling brew of horrors and threats actual or imagined?

After he seeks relief for liver pain through hypnosis (while drinking more than ever, despite the treatments), his few impulse-control mechanisms rapidly dissolve, and reality only rarely intrudes on his cogitations. Harebrained murder plots, half-mad arguments, hysterical rants: the narrative escalates at a maniacal pace, infused with Horacio Castellanos Moya's uniquely outlandish and acerbic sense of humor.

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Review:

Brilliant and devastating and incredibly beautiful.--Chris Faatz

A welcome, eye-opening addition to this new literature of the Latin American nightmare.--Anderson Tepper

Brilliantly funny and unsettling... Castellanos Moya has turned anxiety into an art form and an act of rebellion, and redeemed paranoia as a positive indicator of rot.--Natasha Wimmer

Acid humor, like a Buster Keaton movie or a time bomb.--Roberto Bolaño

About the Author:

Horacio Castellanos Moya was born 1957 in Honduras. He has lived in San Salvador, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico (where he spent ten years as a journalist, editor, and political analyst), Spain, and Germany. In 1988 he won the National Novel Prize from Central American University for his first novel. His work has been published and translated in England, Germany, El Salvador and Costa Rica. He has published ten novels and is now living in exile as part of the City of Asylum project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0811223434
• ISBN 13: 9780811223430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144