Zama (New York Review Books Classics)

Zama (New York Review Books Classics)

An NYRB Classics Original

First published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentine and Spanish-language literature.
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Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, weirdly archaic and powerfully novel, Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de Zama, a highly placed servant of the Spanish crown who has been posted to AsunciÃ³n, the capital of remote Paraguay. There, eaten up by pride, lust, petty grudges, and paranoid fantasies, he does as little as he possibly can while plotting his eventual transfer to Buenos Aires, where everything about his hopeless existence will, he is confident, be miraculously transformed and made good.
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Don Diegoâ€™s slow, nightmarish slide into the abyss is not just a tale of one manâ€™s perdition but an exploration of existential, and very American, loneliness. Zama, with its stark dreamlike prose and spare imagery, is at once dense and unforeseen, terse and fateful, marked throughout by a haunting movement between sentences, paragraphs, and sections, so that every word seems to emerge from an ocean of things left unsaid. The philosophical depths of this great book spring directly from its dazzling prose.
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2016-08-23
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590177174

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review of Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2016-08-23
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590177174

Zama (New York Review Books Classics)

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