About this title: In the third part of the Nova Tetralogy, Burroughs uses the cut-up technique to explore language systems in this continuing saga of the Nova Mob and its totalitarian hold on humanity. Known for exploding notions of plot, structure, logic, and rationality, and reducing narrative to an entirely personal, metaphorical account, Burroughs again uses science-fiction imagery to explore themes of greed, power, addiction, lust, and mediocrity. Characters morph, screech, shoot up, couple and uncouple with a surreality that zooms beyond Kafka, beyond Philip K. Dick.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove Press, New York
Date Published: 1956
ISBN-13:9780394172033ISBN:0394172035
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"three exemplary novels, so titled with a nod to cervantes, is miguel de unamuno's best known fiction, but is actually comprised of two novellas and a short dramatic piece. unamuno, novelist, playwright, and poet, was a much regarded philosopher and intellectual in early twentieth century spain. perhaps most well known for his non-fiction work, the tragic sense of life, unamuno wrote prolifically about the struggles between reason and faith. devoted to his pursuits, unamuno even learned danish in order to read kierkegaard in its original form, and his works are often credited with being forerunners of existentialism.
three exemplary novels is written in spare yet engaging prose. not much for description, unamuno instead focuses on the tension between his characters. in reading this book, one can easily see unamuno's influence on garcía lorca's own works. of the three pieces contained in this book, "nothing less than a man" is easily the strongest, one that "focuses on a truly nietzschean hero, a man who embodies human will deprived of spiritual strength" (angel del rio). written some ninety years ago, these stories retain a clarity that, although not as shocking as they must have seemed upon first publication, still allows us a glimpse into the oft-conflicted morality of the individual."
"In all relationships, the battle of wills carries on, sometimes well concealed, other times made more plain. So it is in these stories from a Spanish writer nearly 100 years ago. I actually cannot trace my footsteps to them, perhaps by way of Borges? Perhaps just luck.
But these stand up decently, if not a bit strident in tone, and an archaic focus on royalty and all of its necessary foibles. The bigger they come...
But the weird flexing of power of brother over brother, of wife over wife, of lover of lover...that is what lingers for me These three stories have a strange almost Ayn Rand-like flavor. Where these is love allegedly, there is often an overriding sense of possession.
Unsettling in an intriguing manner. This is back before dysfunctional families became common fodder for sitcoms."
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