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In Spite of the Dark Silence
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In Spite of the Dark Silence Hardback - 2011

by Jorge Volpi; Olivia Maciel (Translator); Afterword by Olivia Maciel

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"He was named Jorge, like me, and for this his life hurts me twice." So writes Jorge Volpi in this highly original novel that presents a biographical perspective on the tragic life of the poet and chemist Jorge Cuesta. Cuesta was one of the founders of Los Contemporneos, an influential twentieth-century literary movement. The poetic voice of Cuesta's verses can be heard throughout, offering insights into the creative and destructive forces and impulses in his work that eventually led to a mental ward--and a shocking suicide at thirty-eight. The fictional "Jorge," as narrator, embarks on an obsessive quest to understand the life of the long-dead poet, with the distance between subject and researcher blurring as he finds himself struggling to understand his own life. It is a brave search for anyone willing to gaze into the mirror of mortality "in spite of the dark silence."

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  • Title In Spite of the Dark Silence
  • Author Jorge Volpi; Olivia Maciel (Translator); Afterword by Olivia Maciel
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First American E
  • Pages 120
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Swan Isle Press, Chicago
  • Publication date 2011-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780974888187 / 0974888184
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 1.52 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Cuesta, Jorge
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010042780
  • Dewey Decimal Code 863.64

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Jorge Volpi, the author of Season of Ash, among other books, is one of the founders of the influential literary movement, The Crack. In Spite of the Dark Silence was his first novel, published when he was just twenty-four. Olivia Maciel teaches in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Loyola University-Chicago. She is also visiting professor in the Honors College at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

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