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      Dream of Reason

      by Rosa Chacel
      Published
      Oct 2009
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
      Pages
      718
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      A masterpiece of modernist fiction about one man's search for meaning, Dream of Reason (La sinrazón) reveals Rosa Chacel as an intellectual and literary innovator whose work stands alongside that of Joyce, Proust, and Woolf.
       
      This meditative novel, grounded in the thinking of Spain's great modern philosopher Ortega y Gasset, unfolds as the journal of a bourgeois chemist who makes his way in Buenos Aires just before and during the Spanish Civil War. Tracing his relationship with three women, Santiago Hernández explores the power of his own intentions and the limits of human reason. His introspective experiment, set against the background of world-altering events, documents the workings of a self-absorbed mind speculating on the inseparability of self and circumstance and is a brilliant enactment of how, from such tensions, narrative emerges.

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      Literary

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      Oct 2009 Bison Books ISBN13 9780803263642 ISBN10 0803263643
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      Oct 2009 University of Nebraska Press ISBN13 9780803214736 ISBN10 0803214731
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