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Title	:	Hallucinations: or, The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando
Author	:	Reinaldo Arenas
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	December 31st 2001 by Penguin Books (first published 1966)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Spanish Literature

Hallucinations: or, The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando

Reinaldo Arenas

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

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In the brilliant tradition of Don Quixote and Candide, this passionate novel by the author of Before Night Falls is a modern masterpiece of Latin American fiction. Fray Servando--priest, blasphemer, dueler of monsters, irresistible lover, misunderstood prophet, prisoner, and consummate escape artist--wanders among the vice-ridden populations of eighteenth-century Europe and the Americas, fleeing dungeons, a marriage-minded woman, a slave ship captain, and the Inquisition. Whether by burro, by boat, or by the back of a whale, Fray Servando's journey is at once funny and romantic, melancholy and profound--a tale rooted in history, yet outrageously hallucinatory.

"An impenitent amalgam of truth and invention, historical fact and outrageous make-believe . . . a philosophical black comedy."--The New York Times

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Original Title:	El mundo alucinante
ISBN:	0142000191 (ISBN13: 9780142000199)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Friar Servando, Frei Servando

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Un laberinto lleno de alucinaciones. Desde la perspectiva de la literatura: una lectura a veces complicada, a veces muy graciosa, barroca en la variedad de estilos de su narrativa.Desde la perspectiva historiográfica: Una magistral ficción que además de su valor literario, pone sobre la mesa la discusión sobre el caracter siempre inacabado, incompleto y parcial de la interpretación histórica en el marco de una disciplina académica.

A seminal reading experience. The most amazingly constructed, dazzling story I've ever approached. 15 pages into this book I was asking myself "what the hell am I reading?" I couldn't put it down for a second. I don't want to say why, because that will ruin it for you. I envy anyone reading this for the first time. (And this is nearly the only Magic Realism I've read, besides The Ex-Magician and Other Stories by Murillo Rubaio, which doesn't beg to be compared to Garcia-Marques.

Wonderful stuff. Highly recommended.

Reinaldo Arenas (1943 1990)Reinaldo Arenas (1943 1990) nasceu numa área rural de Cuba, mudando-se em 1963 para Havana onde acaba por estudar filosofia e literatura na Faculdade de Letras, sem nunca ter concluído a sua formação académica. Um ano mais tarde começa a trabalhar na Biblioteca Nacional José Martí e inicia a sua carreira literária com O Mundo Alucinante o seu primeiro romance publicado em 1966.Apoiante da Revolução Cubana nos seus primeiros anos na capital Havana acaba por se

Just a year before 100 Years of Solitude, Reinaldo Arenas wrote his own magical realist novel El Mundo Alucinante, or Hallucinations. Surreal, picaresque, historical, satirical, and hilarious, Hallucinations comprehensively represents the best of Latin American literature at this time. Drawing parallels between the onset of Mexican independence and contemporary revolutionary movements, Arenas focuses on the experiences of one man, Friar Servando Teresa de Mier, a true historical figure who was

This book is soo fun to read! I really enjoyed it and discovered a lot of things about my country and one of the most ignored heroes: Fray Servando Teresa de Mier. I think Arenas could develop this amazing novel because of the emotional and circumstantial link he established with this character. As Arenas suffered repression from Castro's system and was imprisioned several times, Fray Servando was also sent to jail a lot of times because he questioned religion and politics.Awesomely well

Simply wonderful book, the poetic power of its words reminds me of Walter Benjamin's essays. And after reading it I don't need to read the local political news anymore, because it's all already there, inequalities, corruption, all kinds of misery which generally happen to human beings.