lu’s Reviews > El mundo alucinante > Status Update

this is kind of insanely good... the switches in point of view, the repeated scenes, everything fantastical, the LANGUAGE... they put drugs in 20th century cuban novels and i'm SO MAD the swarthmore cuban lit course that was GOING to run next spring ISN'T ANYMORE when i've literally been planning on taking it for 2 years. but it's fucking whatever. IT'S WHATEVER!!!!

reinaldo arenas pioneer of the freak historical latin american novel maybe

god knows how long this will take me to finish but the intro letter ohhhhhhh
“resulta innecesario recalcar que [estas citas] son tuyas; porque no es verdad, porque son, en fin, como todo lo grandioso y grotesco, del tiempo; del brutal e insoportable tiempo que en estos días te hará cumplir doscientos años”