Larva

Julián Ríos

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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Larva edition · 2004 · Dalkey Archive Press · 585 pages
Larva edition · 1994 · Plaza & Janes · 598 pages
Larva hardcover · 1991 · Quartet Books · 585 pages
Larva edition · 1990 · Dalkey Archive Press · 585 pages
Babel de una noche de San Juan edition · 1983 · Edicions del Mall · 598 pages

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