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Loquela

Loquela

Labbé, Carlos
Vanderhyden, Will

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Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1940953243
ISBN13: 9781940953243
Publisher: Open Letter Books
Published: Dec 15 2015
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

[Labbé] wreaks havoc on narrative rules from the start and keeps doing it.--Bookforum

Loquela, Carlos Labbé's fourth novel and second to be translated into English, is a narrative chameleon, a shape-shifting exploration of fiction's possibilities.

At a basic level, this book is like a hybrid of Julio Cortázar and Paul Auster: a distorted detective novel, a love story, and a radical statement about narrative art. Behind the silence that unites and separates Carlos and Elisa, behind the game that estranges the albino girls, Alicia and Violeta, from the best summer afternoons, behind the destiny of Neutria--a city that disappears with childhood and returns with desire--and behind a literary move-ment that might be the ultimate vanguard while at the same time the greatest falsification, questions arise concerning who truly writes for whom in a novel--the author or the reader.

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