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Seven serpents & seven moons
- Title
- Seven serpents & seven moons / Demetrio Aguilera-Malta ; translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa.
- Author
- Aguilera Malta, Demetrio, 1909-1981
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, [1979]
- ©1979.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Rabassa, Gregory.
- Description
- 305 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Seven Serpents and Seven Moons is set on the shores of Santorontón. This tropical village is inhabited by some exceptional beings: the vigorous, rough-hewn Father Cándido and his wry talking Jesus--a crucifix presented to him by pirates from out of the past; Colonel Candelario Mariscal, the despoiler who is said to be the son of the Devil and is seeking salvation through the honest love of the daughter of the witch doctor Bulu-Bulu; and Crisóstomo Chalena, the outsider who gains control of the town's roofs and rainwater and eventually the entire village. These and many other equally protean figures cross paths and swords as Santorontón is torn between the Evil One and the Crucified One. The story is invested with a pervading sense of magic and with political meaning as well. The fantastic microcosm of Santorontón illustrates both symbolically and literally many of the essential problems that bedevil Latin America.
- Series Statement
- The Texas Pan American series
- Uniform Title
- Siete lunas y siete serpientes. English
- Texas Pan American series.
- Alternative Title
- Siete lunas y siete serpientes.
- 7 serpents & 7 moons
- Seven serpents and seven moons
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fictional Work
- Fiction.
- Translations.
- Romans.
- Note
- Translation of Siete lunas y siete serpientes.
- ISBN
- 0292775520
- 9780292775527
- LCCN
- 79010516
- OCLC
- ocm04804356
- 4804356
- SCSB-9218502
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library