His Name was Death by Rafael Bernal (English) Paperback Book

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9780811230834
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Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
081123083X
ISBN-13
9780811230834
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14050073159

Product Key Features

Book Title
His Name Was Death
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Political, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Fiction
Author
Rafael Bernal
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.5 in
Item Weight
6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in

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LCCN
2021-037306
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"The apparent simplicity of His Name Was Death belies the subtlety of its themes. Behind the horror of the mosquito "invasion" are the nested invasions of the apparently "civilized" humans in the book.", The pervading sense of personal and social oblivion becomes increasingly bracing. It's like Apocalypse Now with mosquitos, and surprisingly it works., In 1947, Bernal published one of Mexico's pathbreaking sci-fi novels: His Name Was Death. Set among the Lacandón indigenous people in the country's southern rainforests, it depicts a universe ruled by hyper-intelligent mosquitoes who farm the human race as a food source...Bernal's work can be pulpy, and reactionary, but it's also clever in the way it encourages critical reading. He possessed a rare ability to assume a perspective and examine it at the same time--and he expected his readers to do the same., Rafael Bernal's The Mongolian Conspiracy, written in 1969, is a masterful work of hilarity and noir. Compelling and full of wit, this is a detective story with a cast of memorable characters, delicious Mexican profanities and sharp, well-placed dialogue., This is the first novel by Bernal, who died in 1972 at 57, to be translated into English... at once complex, chilling and slapstick, is a doozy., This Mexico City noir is a lot of fun and packs an unexpected wallop...This absurdist pastiche is equal parts Richard Stark and Philip Atlee with echoes of Chester Himes and Paco Ignacio Taibo II.
Synopsis
Never before in English, this legendary precursor to eco-fiction turns the coming insect apocalypse on its head A Wall Street Journal Best Science Fiction Book of 2021, A bitter drunk forsakes civilization and takes to the Mexican jungle, trapping animals, selling their pelts to buy liquor for colossal benders, and slowly rotting away in his fetid hut. His neighbors, a clan of the Lacodón tribe of Chiapas, however, see something more in him than he does himself (dubbing him Wise Owl): when he falls deathly ill, a shaman named Black Ant saves his life--and, almost by chance, in driving out his fever, she exorcises the demon of alcoholism as well. Slowly recovering, weak in his hammock, our antihero discovers a curious thing about the mosquitoes' buzzing, "which to human ears seemed so irritating and pointless." Perhaps, in fact, it constituted a language he might learn--and with the help of a flute and a homemade dictionary--even speak. Slowly, he masters Mosquil, with astonishing consequences... Will he harness the mosquitoes' global might? And will his new powers enable him to take over the world that's rejected him? A book far ahead of its time, His Name Was Death looks down the double-barreled shotgun of ecological disaster and colonial exploitation--and cackles a graveyard laugh.
LC Classification Number
PQ7297.B38S813 2021

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