![]() ![]() A resident of Paris throughout much of the book, Rasero hobnobs with Diderot, Voltaire, Rousseau, Robes -pierre and philosopher David Hume. ![]() The novel's eponymous hero, Fausto Rasero, is an 18th-century Andalusian who has the unusual distinction of having known many of the key figures of the Enlightenment. Lane, who has brought us such writers as Augusto Roa Bastos, Octavio Paz and Mario Vargas Llosa. It appears here in an excellent English translation by Helen R. It is fundamentally a subversive book, one that challenges our notion of history and cleverly juxtaposes Reality and Truth to prove that - in the end - interpretation is everything.įirst published in Mexico in 1993, Rasero is the winner of the 1994 Pegasus Prize for Latin-American literature. A roman-fleuve in the tradition of such distinguished practitioners as Tolstoy, Dickens or James, Rasero seems almost anachronistic in form, yet decidedly is not. This, at any rate, is the thesis of Rasero, a mature first novel by Mexican author Francisco Rebolledo, a former chemistry teacher at Mexico City's National Autonomous University. ![]() WE LIVE IN AN AGE in which information is often prized over knowledge, high-tech weaponry and toxic chemicals are destroying the earth, and the culture of reality, because it appears more relevant than literature, has overrun the culture of storytelling. ![]()
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