Julian Rios, Author, Edith Grossman, Translator Alfred A. Knopf $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-375-40823-6
Spanish writer R os (Loves That Bind; Larva), nightmarish images drift before us and then vanish, leaving behind only the possibility that we might find ourselves reflected in them. When we first encounter Mons, the painter who represents the moving
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Julian Rios, Author, Suzanne Jill Levine, Translator, Richard A. Francis, Translator Dalkey Archive Press $27.5 (585p) ISBN 978-0-916583-66-8
As a subtitle, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy would have done just as well. Ostensibly about the shenanigans of Don Juan with fairy tale figures and boot-wearing fetishists, Rios's tale is actually about words--using puns and palindromes,...
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Julian Rios, Author, Richard A. Francis, Translator Dalkey Archive Press $13.5 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56478-138-3
In his more lucid moments, Ezra Pound would have appreciated this combination of puzzle and pastiche. Rios's second part in the projected quintet that started with the massive Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel, owes its style to all of the early...
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Julián Ríos, trans. from the Spanish by Nick Caistor, Dalkey Archive, $14.95 trade paper (280p) ISBN 978-1-56478-597-8
In this novel–cum–book report, translator Caistor captures the smooth prose and wordplay of Spain's foremost postmodernist, Ríos, who takes to heart James Joyce's assertion that the enigmas of Ulysses would "keep the professors busy for centuries."...
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