Name: Senselessness: A Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner From the Black Mountain Institute (New Directions Paperbook) (in English)
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Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
ISBN: 9780811217071

portada Senselessness: A Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner From the Black Mountain Institute (New Directions Paperbook) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

New Directions

Author

Horacio Castellanos Moya

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

142

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0811217078

ISBN13

9780811217071

Synopsis "Senselessness: A Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner From the Black Mountain Institute (New Directions Paperbook) (in English)"

A Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner from the Black Mountain Institute: Senselessness, acclaimed Salvadoran author Horacio Castallanos Moya's astounding debut in English, explores horror with hilarity and electrifying panache. A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army's massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. The writer's job is to tidy it up: he rants, "that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and giving a manicure to the Catholic hands that were piously getting ready to squeeze the balls of the military tiger." Mesmerized by the strange Vallejo-like poetry of the Indians' phrases ("the houses they were sad because no people were inside them"), the increasingly agitated and frightened writer is endangered twice over: by the spell the strangely beautiful heart-rending voices exert over his tenuous sanity, and by real danger―after all, the murderers are the very generals who still run this unnamed Latin American country.