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Cuenta las insolitas aventuras en que se ven involucrado un portero de un lujoso edificio de Manhattan. El autor crea un mundo encantado pleno de realidades sordidas y de un soberbio delirio barroco. Se nos muestra que los animales tienen tambien los justos elementos de la melancolia y pueden llegar a ser mas humanos que el hombre.

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The novel The Ill-fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando recreates in a poetic style, in which time, space, and character move on multiple planes of fantasy and reality, the life of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, a Mexican priest famous for his hatred of the Spaniards. Mier denied even that the Spaniards had brought Christianity to the New World. Arenas begins with a letter to the friar: "Ever since I discovered you in an execrable history of Spanish literature, described as the friar who had traveled over the whole of Europe on foot having improbable adventures; I have tried to find out more about you." In a meditation on the nature of fiction, Arenas discovers that he and Servando are the same person, and author and character become one.

(Bowker Author Biography)