Loves That Bind: A Novel
of JuliĂĄn RĂos, Edith Grossman (Translator)
Description
From one of Spain's most distinguished--and daring--writers comes this intensely erotic and shamelessly literary adventure through the streets of London. Emil, the mysterious narrator, has been abandoned by the woman he loves. Filled with doubt and nostalgia, bent on therapy or distraction or revenge, he wanders the city in search of her. Driven by the anguish of rejection and desire, he writes twenty-six letters to his fugitive lover, each an intricately detailed account of his affairs with twenty-six women who preceded her. Each of these figures bears an uncanny resemblance to a famous literary heroine, from Proust's Albertine to Fitzgerald's Daisy to Nabokov's Lolita to Queneau's Zazie. One by one, in alphabetical order, Emil's letters adopt the tone, style, and substance of the great novelists of the twentieth century, while, in recollection, his past love affairs grow increasingly extravagant and hallucinatory. As we follow his physical and creative journey, we try to unravel fact from fantasy, emotion from delusion, while searching for clues to the novel's amorous alphabet, the building blocks of modernist and postmodernist literature. A seductive puzzle saturated with wordplay, "Loves That Bind" is a linguistic tour de force of remarkable agility and wit. "From the Hardcover edition."
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date April 27th 1999
- First Publication 01/06/95
- Language English
- ISBN 9780375700606
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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