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008 930812s1994 nyu 000 1 eng
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020 _a0670840661
035 _a(OCoLC)28721806
035 _a(OCoLC)ocm28721806
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041 1 _aeng
_hspa
050 0 0 _aPQ7390.A72
_bA813 1994
100 1 _aArenas, Reinaldo,
_d1943-1990.
_92471
240 1 0 _aAsalto.
_lEnglish
245 0 4 _aThe assault /
_cReinaldo Arenas ; translated by Andrew Hurley.
260 _a[New York] :
_bViking,
_c1994.
263 _a9408
300 _axi, 145 p. ;
_c23 cm.
520 _aThe author of the brilliant and highly acclaimed memoir, Before Night Falls, Reinaldo Arenas concluded his sequence of five novels - at once a "secret history of Cuba" and a writer's autobiography - with an allegorical satire. In The Assault, he paints a harrowing, yet at times boldly entertaining, Kafkaesque picture of a dehumanized people and the despair of an observer/narrator himself clinging to sanity.
520 8 _aThis profane narrative, filled with righteous rage, takes us on a surreal journey through a blackly humorous shadowland where philosophical discussion, homosexuality, and forgetting the words to heroic anthems are comparable crimes - and a cockroach hunt makes a national holiday.
520 8 _aWith echoes of Rabelais, Swift, Orwell, and the films of Lois Bunuel, The Assault crowns the work of one of the most visionary writers to have emerged from Castro's Cuba, a writer whom Octavio Paz called "remarkable... as much for his intellectual dignity as for his talent."
700 1 _aHurley, Andrew.
_92472
900 _bTOC
942 _2lcc
_cMONOGRAPH
999 _c118332
_d118332