Larva
Original title: Babel de una noche de San Juan
earliest edition we have, 1983 Dalkey Archive Press, 2004 585 pages
Colección Ave fénix -- 191/1
"Larva is an account of a masquerade party in an abandoned mansion in London. Milalias (disguised as Don Juan) searches for Babelle (as Sleeping Beauty) through a linguistic funhouse of puns and wordplay recalling Joyce's Finnegans Wake. A mock-scholarly commentary reveals the backgrounds of the masked revelers, while Rios's allusive language shows that words too wear masks, hiding an astonishing range of further mea...
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