Brookline Books/Lumen Editions
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Diary Of A Humiliated Manby Felix de Azua / translated by Julie JonesSelected by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of 1996.
Fall 1996
This work presents eight months in the life of a hopelessly banal individual, told in the form of increasingly disjointed notebook entries -entries that detail episodes of drunkenness, minor crime, minor sex, acerbic ruminations on liturature and the protagonist's inability to create anything more than his own dissolution. Diary of a Humiliated Man ultimately rises above the moral squalor in which it is mired. It is, in the narrator's own words, "a modest book full of hope." |  |
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