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Aprendices de brujo

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  • "In this farcical tragedy intermixing the supernatural, the erotic, the poetic and the political, two youths from Bogota travel to 1920s Havana to pay homage to the legendary Italian actress Duse as she returns to the stage. The narrative voices of the young gay couple and of the aging diva contrast dull Bogota with daring Havana at the end of an era, as they journey from the offices of the secret police to a Thousand-and-One-Nights ball to a Leninist rally to a Santeria ceremony to an orgy, encountering along the way sorcerers, hermaphrodite nuns, and astral messengers trying to change an island's destiny. --Translated and extracted from publisher description."
  • "The story is replete with Rabelaisian characters: among them, a quasi-widow who runs her family as if it were an army, sisters too ugly to marry off, a kind friend with the face of a monkey, a hermaphrodite nun, an iconoclastic, dissolute painter, the handsomest communist who ever lived, disheartened phantoms, bands of irresistible Cuban men, transmigrating souls, and, finally, the very seed of a demon who will one day make the Island his own."
  • "In the Roaring Twenties, two worldly young aristocrats embark on a journey to see one of their idols, the sublime Italian actress Eleonora Duse, who, to their utmost delight, has recently returned to the stage. What follows as they prepare for their adventure and, later, when they arrive in the Cuban capital, is a hilarious, erotic, and political tragicomedy, told in hallucinatory language, volcanic in its invention."
  • "En esta farsa con fondo de tragedia, en la que se entremezclan lo sobrenatural, lo erótico, lo poético y lo político, dos jóvenes bogotanos emprenden un viaje a La Habana en los años veinte con el propósito de ver a una legendaria actriz italiana que ha regresado a las tablas. Los protagonistas saltan de las sombrías oficinas de la policía secreta a un baile de Las mil y una noches, de un agitado homenaje a Lenin a un toque de tambores en honor de Babalú Ayé, del escenario de un brutal crimen en el barrio chino a orgías interraciales y sórdidos prostíbulos, y encuentran hechiceros que hacen transmigrar las almas, monjas hermafroditas, apolos comunistas y mensajeros del mundo astral que intentan cambiar el terrible destino de una isla. Las voces narrativas de un dandi y una diva hastiada de todo revelan los estertores de una época en una novela de la que emergen, como protagonistas, dos ciudades: la grisácea y conventual Bogotá y una Habana atrevida y cosmopolita.--Extraído de la descripción de la editorial."

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  • "Aprendices de brujo"@es
  • "Aprendices de brujo"
  • "The last masquerade : a novel"
  • "Aprendices de brujo : una novela"

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