The Triumphant Voyage - Softcover

Eduardo García Aguilar; Jay Miskowiec (translator)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982278403 ISBN 13: 9780982278406

Publisher: Aliform Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

'The Triumphant Voyage' is a picaresque novel that recounts the life of the fictional modernist poet Arnaldo Faría Utrillo, as well as his young group of acolytes, during the first half of the 20th century. During his circumnavigation of the world Faría encounters such figures as Pablo Picasso, Rubén Darío, and Mata Hari; he is shipwrecked during a typhoon and in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake; he makes love atop Mayan pyramids and witnesses his wife die of the plague in India. Along the way he must confront the violence wracking his homeland of Colombia.

About this title

About the Author:

Eduardo García Agular has had a long and distinguished writing career, with almost 20 published books to his name, including the novels 'Boulevard of Heroes,' 'Tequila Coccyx,' and 'Ifigenia colombiana'; the collections of short stories 'Luminous Cities' and of poetry 'Llanto de la espada'; the critical examination of globalism 'Mexico Madness: Manifesto for a Disenchanted Generation'; and book length studies of Gabriel García Márquez, Álvaro Mutis, and Voltaire. He currently lives in Paris where he works as a journalist for the wire service Agence France-Presse.

Review:

The best way to get into literature, its foibles and its directions, is to live. it. This is precisely what Eduardo García Aguilar lets us do in this peripatetic novel, so much in he spirit of Cortázar, Bolaño, and Eça de Queirós, as he leads us through the ways and means of what we have come to call modernism...And a singularly good translation. --Gregory Rabassa

'The Triumphant Voyage' captures the epoch in Latin America of the generations of modernism. --Letralia (online)

The gaze of García Aguilar is that of the disenchanted traveler wandering through the cities of the Americas and Europe, but with a certain anarchy and rebellion. --Vuelta (Mexico City)

About this edition

• Publisher: Aliform Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0982278403
• ISBN 13: 9780982278406
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Jay Miskowiec
• Illustrator: Lourdes Cué (cover Art)