Uselessness

✍ Scribed by Eduardo Lalo; Suzanne Jill Levine

• Book ID: 109983805
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 139 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780226207797

✦ Synopsis

The streets of Paris at night are pathways coursing with light and shadow, channels along which identity may be formed and lost, where the grand inflow of history, art, language, and thought—and of love—can both inspire and enfeeble. For the narrator of Eduardo Lalo's Uselessness, it is a world long desired. But as this young aspiring writer discovers upon leaving his home in San Juan to study—to live and be reborn—in the city of his dreams, Paris's twinned influences can rip you apart.

Lalo's first novel, Uselessness is something of a bildungsroman of his own student days in Paris. But more than this, it is a literary précis of his oeuvre—of themes that obsess him still. Told in two parts, Uselessness first follows our narrator through his romantic and intellectual awakenings in Paris, where he elevates his adopted home over the moribund one he has left behind. But as he falls in and out of love he comes to realize...
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