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Follow report a rainsfords feelings as he enters the room. Senselessness also displays considerable dark humour, and despite its long sentences andor because of katherine silvers smooth renderings of them into english reads relatively easily, the horrors made digestible which is part of castellanos moya s horrible joke. Please see the supplementary resources provided below for other helpful content related to this book. Written in a single paragraph and alive with a fury as astringent as the wrath of. Piccini, mark 2016 the excess of life and death in roberto bolanos 2666 and horacio castellanos moyas senselessness. Horacio castellanos moya has 30 books on goodreads with 12326 ratings. Translated from the spanish by katherine silverkatherine silver is the recipient of a 2007 pen translation fund grant for her translation of horacio castellanos moya s senselessness new directions, 2008. Senselessness kindle edition by moya, horacio castellanos. It seems an impossible mix, but for castellanos moya it worked incredibly well. Moya channels austrian writer and luminous curmudgeon thomas bernhard 19311989, whose own style.
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