By Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman
Haunted all her lifestyles by means of emotions of terror and vacancy, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her local Dominican Republic - and reveals herself reliving the occasions of l961, while the capital was once nonetheless known as Trujillo urban and one outdated guy terrorized a kingdom of 3 million. Rafael Trujillo, the wicked ill dictator whom Dominicans name the Goat, controls his internal circle with a mix of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice became a lifestyle. yet Trujillo's seize is slipping. there's a conspiracy opposed to him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that might have bloody outcomes of its personal. during this 'masterpiece of Latin American and international literature, and one of many best political novels ever written' (Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the top of a regime and the start of a negative democracy, giving voice to the historic Trujillo and the sufferers, either blameless and complicit, drawn into his lethal orbit.
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It first led man to the modern refusal of absolute categories, and then to the refusal of the absolute. 2 3 subsequent theories on special and general relativity (published respectively in 1905 and 1916) contributed to destroying the traditional spatio-temporal concepts of the universe’s stability. Real duration is also dynamic, qualitative and irreversible. Bergson’s idea according to which real duration cannot be spatialized implies a contrast between duration and space. It is worth noting that, in this context, the meaning of ‘space’ and ‘spatializing’ is related to chronological linearity, which is quite the opposite of Frank’s interpretation of the terms as expressions of simultaneity.
This is not a simple revolution, but the definitive acknowledgement of the non-being that Western philosophy and the Western world have always implicitly contemplated. 9 Devoid of God and of all metaphysics, the modern age represents the coherent development and climax of the Western world’s belief in nothingness. 10 Truth now corresponds to God’s death, and stops being a remedy for nothingness. The atavistic fear of the unknown and of death is no longer redeemable. Without a founding sense which restores all dif ferences to unity, and with fragmentation as its main expression, nihilism is all-embracing, deeply introjected, practised, and implicitly contemplated or explicitly theorized.
W. Holtz, ‘Spatial Form in Modern Literature: A Reconsideration’, Critical Inquiry 4/2 (Winter 1977), 271–83. Holtz attempts to reconcile Frank’s spatiality with the critical responses invalidating that spatiality as being metaphorical and not literal, and argues that the spatiality of literature and of the visual arts ‘are of dif ferent ontological orders’ (274). 51 M. Pagnini, ‘Ezra Pound: episteme del Novecento e acculturazione selvaggia’, in Semiosi (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1988), 313–25, 324 (my translation of ‘“spazio” e non “canto”’).
