havingbeenbreathedout:—Álvaro Enrigue, Sudden DeathThis part-novel, part-historical-essay—which is n
havingbeenbreathedout:—Álvaro Enrigue, Sudden DeathThis part-novel, part-historical-essay—which is not exactly about tennis, nor Caravaggio, nor Hernán Cortés nor Carlo Borromeo nor Anne Boleyn, nor drinking and fucking in the embers of the Renaissance, nor exactly the Counter-Reformation nor the Spanish Conquest of México; but which is certainly about art and politics and cruelty and the unexpected shortfalls and augmentations of language—is, I think, my first five-star read of 2017. And a very timely meditation it is, too. -- source link
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