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| The Palace of the White Skunks | | | Author:
| Arenas, Reinaldo | | Translator:
| Hurley, Andrew | | Introduction by:
| Colchie, Thomas | | ISBN: | 978-0-14-009792-4 | | Publication Date: | Aug 1993 | | Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group
| | Book Format: | Paperback | | List Price: | USD $13.95 |
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Arenas, Reinaldo
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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.
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