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De La Elegancia Mientras Se Duerme (1924)

by Vizconde de Lascano Tegui(Favorite Author)

3.51 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8493592757 (ISBN13: 9788493592752)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Editorial Impedimenta

review 1: I haven't read a book like this one before. I wanted to read more Argentinian literature and that's why I picked it up. I appreciated the diary format with brief flashes of the narrator's past and present life. The highlight of the book was the hunchback entry. Did anyone lawl as much as I did? Anyway, I also found the main character's interactions with women to be very interesting. It would be an ideal piece for analysis. I would recommend this one.
review 2: With the title "On Elegance While Sleeping," of course I had to read it. Its by a writer i never heard of before, a man who is a total mystery to me. Which added the appeal for me to pick on this book as well. A sweet little tale of a murder-to-be via his diary. But no, this is not a serial kill... moreer's rant and ravings, it is a highly beautifully written dreamy (in other words Surreal) observations on sexuality, family, and one's place in the 'outer' world. Which in other words can be "dandy" world. These two paragraphs i find beautiful:"One day she wasn't among her friends, but still feeling the strange power of that fragile girl -destined to die far too early - her friends fell silent as they passed me, same as on all the other day, without the least self-consciousness. Not a single one looked at me. And I knew the truth. Isabel was dying.Having decided a few days later to inquire about her health, I installed myself again along the bend in the road, where I soon heard a song coming down the way. The women from the factory of supersensitive telephone receivers had replaced their dead friend with a song."A wonderful little book. less

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