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Border crossing may be literal, figurative, imaginary, symbolic or psychological, or, as in the Mexican novelist Juan Tovar's Creature of a Day, all of these at once. This richly conceived prose fiction (a novel in the freshest sense) enchants and seduces the reader with a beguiling tableau of tales told in a language contemporary yet resonant of Caldern de la Barca, Chaucer and Shakespeare. Creature of a Day is inhabited by actors and priests, murderers and harlots, mendicants, merchants, pilgrims and storytellers. Themes of isolation and migration emerge in the wit and repartee of these characters; at the same time, in a stream of literary hallucination that flows from Lautreamont and Strindberg to Beckett, Cocteau, Calvino, and Borges, Creature of a Day washes across the North American consciousness. This award-winning translation by Leland H. Chambers reflects a vital new Mexican literature.
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Juan Tovar is a writer of short stories, novels, and screenplays, as well as being a dramatist of note. He majored in chemical engineering at the University of Puebla. He transferred to Mexico City in 1962, where he focused on dramatic theory and composition, and studied with Luisa Hernandez and Emilio Carballido. He taught in various schools from 1967 to the present.
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- PublisherMcPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0929701682
- ISBN 13 9780929701684
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages159
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