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Original Title:	Monstruario
ISBN:	0375408231 (ISBN13: 9780375408236)
Edition Language:	English

Monstruary Hardcover | Pages: 240 pages

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Julián Ríos's sensual and stylish Loves That Bind was acclaimed as "a literary tour de force" by the Washington Post Book World. Now, in Monstruary, the author is back to his old tricks, using dazzling wordplay and masterful allusions to give us a sensual exploration of art, literature, and the shadowy realms of the human spirit.

Ríos takes us into the eerie existence of the painter Victor Mons, who has created a series of works titled Monstruary, a menagerie of personal demons summoned from the disturbing and often erotic images of his past. We follow Mons on nocturnal outings and infernal escapades, as he encounters fiendish figures, otherworldly phantasms, and the beautiful models and prostitutes who serve as his muses. And we meet a host of fascinating and haunting characters: the architect who attempts to deconstruct a real city by constructing imaginary ones; the anonymous patron who commissions his portrait to be painted on his mistress's skin; Mons's ethereal lover, who torments him by recounting her infidelities--which he then paints; the mysterious itinerant collector, who may be only an actress playing the role of a lifetime.

In Monstruary, Ríos assembles all the monsters of the Western world—from classical antiquity to the silver screen, from the Minotaur to Dracula—and collapses the boundaries between reality and imagination, leading us into a new domain where the ghoulish and the exquisite collide and combine. With language that is playful, inventive, and virtuosic, he shows us the dark side of the human heart, and the strange places where life and art overlap, each feeding and inspiring the other.

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Title	:	Monstruary
Author	:	Julián Ríos
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	March 6th 2001 by Knopf (first published March 2nd 1999)
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Liked his short story in Best European Fiction 2010

Let us go on the Internet, inside the Trojan horse, Bouvard proposed, and introduce true writing - the real thing - into the enemy citadel of simulacra and virtuality. Hmmm...I would have liked it more if it was a better book, i.e., not filled with word play and artistic/literary references to the point where the reader is put into the dilemma of either reading further or stopping to google what Memling's Diable en Enfer has to do with a boar. If you can get past the 'look at all the things I

In order to evoke that multiple Eva who had vanished years before, the chameleonesque German girl was his dark-haired, wasp-waisted 'La Signorina Spalanzani' with one hand on her pubis, like Manet's Olympia; and his platinum blond 'Future Eve,' a mechanical mannequin, burnished and compact like some of Léger's tubular figures; and his horrific 'Kokoschka's Doll,' a redhead or rather a brunette with hair half-dyed by recently spilled red wine, or perhaps blood; and then she disappeared from

Julián Ríos (born Vigo, Galicia, 1941) is a Spanish writer, most frequently classified as a postmodernist, whom Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes has called "the most inventive and creative" of Spanish-language writers. His first two books were written à deux with Octavio Paz.His best known work, experimental and heavily influenced by the verbal inventiveness of James Joyce, was published in 1983In order to evoke that multiple Eva who had vanished years before, the chameleonesque German girl was his dark-haired, wasp-waisted 'La Signorina Spalanzani' with one hand on her pubis, like Manet's Olympia; and his platinum blond 'Future Eve,' a mechanical mannequin, burnished and compact like some of Léger's tubular figures; and his horrific 'Kokoschka's Doll,' a redhead or rather a brunette with hair half-dyed by recently spilled red wine, or perhaps blood; and then she disappeared from

En lo personal no había leído jamás a Julián Ríos. Algo sabía de que tenía algún trabajo conjunto con Octavio Paz, pero nada más. Así que por azar, "Monstruario" cayó en mis manos y ante un título tan tentador no pude resistirme y abordé su lectura y zaz! Qué enorme sorpresa me he llevado! De clara naturaleza joyciana, la obra es toda una celebración de la magia de la que son capaces las letras cuando son dominadas por alguien con muy buen oficio. La forma de hilvanar cada enunciado que la

If your name is Anthony J. Vacca, then you are probably like me, and you love writers who use the language like platespinners, who write novels of extraordinary erudition rich in references to art, literature and music, who strive to produce works of mould-breaking wonder in emulation of the masters of yore, and whose novels are at once impenetrable, enchanting, challenging, and magnificent. This is one of those.

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