Hallucinations: or, The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando
  • Published:
    Jan-2002
  • Formats:
    Print
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    18th Century
  • Pages:
    288
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In the brilliant tradition of Don Quixote and Candide, this passionate novel by the author of Before Night Falls is a modern masterpiece of Latin American fiction. Fray Servando -- priest, blasphemer, dueler of monsters, irresistible lover, misunderstood prophet, prisoner, and consummate escape artist -- wanders among the vice-ridden populations of eighteenth-century Europe and the Americas, fleeing dungeons, a marriage-minded woman, a slave ship captain, and the Inquisition. Whether by burro, by boat, or by the back of a whale, Fray Servando's journey is at once funny and romantic, melancholy and profound -- a tale rooted in history, yet outrageously hallucinatory.
 
“An impenitent amalgam of truth and invention, historical fact and outrageous make-believe . . . a philosophical black comedy.” -- The New York Times
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    • First Edition
    • Jan-2002
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0142000191
    • ISBN13: 9780142000199



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