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Recital of the Dark Verses

Af: Luis Felipe Fabre Engelsk Paperback

Recital of the Dark Verses

Af: Luis Felipe Fabre Engelsk Paperback
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A road novel, a coming-of-age tale, and a raunchy slapstick comedy that tells—in careening, charismatic prose—the (true) story of the theft of the body of Saint John of the Cross.

In August 1592, a bailiff and his two assistants arrive at the monastery of Úbeda, with the secret task of transferring the remains of Saint John of the Cross, the great Carmelite poet and mystic, to his final abode. When they exhume him, they find the saint''s body as incorrupt and fresh as when he died. 

Thus commences a series of adventures and misfortunes populated by characters that seem to be drawn from mythology. Luis Felipe Fabre masterfully incorporates Saint John''s verses into his prose, as if the saint had prophesied the delirium that would surround his own posthumous transfer. This funny, highly entertaining novel manages to honor the mystical poetry of the Carmelite while inviting the reader to reflect on issues such as the sacred and the profane, the body and the soul, and spiritual (as well as carnal) ecstasy. 

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A road novel, a coming-of-age tale, and a raunchy slapstick comedy that tells—in careening, charismatic prose—the (true) story of the theft of the body of Saint John of the Cross.

In August 1592, a bailiff and his two assistants arrive at the monastery of Úbeda, with the secret task of transferring the remains of Saint John of the Cross, the great Carmelite poet and mystic, to his final abode. When they exhume him, they find the saint''s body as incorrupt and fresh as when he died. 

Thus commences a series of adventures and misfortunes populated by characters that seem to be drawn from mythology. Luis Felipe Fabre masterfully incorporates Saint John''s verses into his prose, as if the saint had prophesied the delirium that would surround his own posthumous transfer. This funny, highly entertaining novel manages to honor the mystical poetry of the Carmelite while inviting the reader to reflect on issues such as the sacred and the profane, the body and the soul, and spiritual (as well as carnal) ecstasy. 

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 200
ISBN-13: 9781646052790
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 164605279X
Kategori: Historiske romaner
Udg. Dato: 2 nov 2023
Længde: 12mm
Bredde: 204mm
Højde: 128mm
Forlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
Oplagsdato: 2 nov 2023
Forfatter(e): Luis Felipe Fabre
Forfatter(e) Luis Felipe Fabre

Kategori Historiske romaner

ISBN-13 9781646052790

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 200

Udgave

Længde 12mm

Bredde 204mm

Højde 128mm

Udg. Dato 2 nov 2023

Oplagsdato 2 nov 2023

Forlag Deep Vellum Publishing

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