Remains

von Jesús Castillo

100 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Jesús Castillo has created a sprawling contemporary epic that channels the mighty voices of the past (Ovid, Sappho) into a plainspoken song of our times. In a deft, generous style, Castillo takes hold of the stuff of our everyday lives and converts it into modern manna. The book is lovingly relentless, quietly piercing. It is a terrifyingly recognizable call: it is filled with all of our voices, our panic, our modern love, our screens, our roommate's cough, our melting icebergs, our planes and malls and frailties. Castillo writes,This is a test. A set of margins created for company. For waiting in train stationsor asking a stranger the time. You're allowedto freak out this much only. There's a green carparked outside, by the curb, near the bike racks.An old man is asking people to putchange in his plastic cup, and I remembermy name contains both my father's andgrandfather's stories. The table I'm sitting atis made of steel and marble. It's cold and it'sspring. In the song on the radio, a noise?

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Lyrik, Poesie
• ISBN: 9781940450421
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.01.2016
• Größe: 216 x 155 mm
• Verlag: McSweeney's