Seven Twilights
Editorial DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS
- ISBN13 9781628974515
- ISBN10 1628974516
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2023
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Taschenbuch
Abschnitte
English LiteraturSeven Twilights
Editorial DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
As if Borges wrote The DecameronDuring an atomic alarm in Barcelona in the year 2025, the thirty-year old hero takes refuge in a luxurious mansion in the mountains where he is put up, along with other guests, awaiting the outcome of the conflict. For the following seven days the residents of the mansion spend their spare time reading and taking walks , and, above all, telling stories to each other. The narrators (most of whom belong to the generation thirty years older than the hero's) are eight in number, and the stories they tell can be taken as autonomous ones, although, as the novel advances, it may soon be that when juxtaposed, they do indeed weave a web of intrigue about a family of bankers-a web that gradually involves some of the guests in the mansion.