Guernica Night

by Barry N. Malzberg

Book Overview

A rash of suicides has sent shock waves through a tightly organized society that officially frowns on such an act but privately makes it unavoidable. How else could people endure in a world carefully... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672519917
• ISBN13: 9780672519918
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Classic Seventies Dystopian Science Fiction

Guernica Night is for those readers who won't turn away from the possibility of another Armageddon; for those readers who don't flinch from meeting head-on insane people performing insane acts in a world in which madness has taken over; for those readers who see some truth in all of this.

Plot...science fiction

A rash of suicides has sent shock waves through a tightly organized society that officially frowns on such an act but privately makes it unavoidable. How else could people endure in a world carefully calculated to rob its citizens of self-respect and dignity? One man struggles against the overpowering temptation to take his own life, because he realizes that he must survive or else give the strange unseen rulers final victory.The characters in this extraordinary novel of the future share a host of psychiatric disturbances. One is haunted by strange visions in the night; another can reach [climax involving sex] only in the confines of an old jalopy; others share schizophrenic fantasies that give frightening insight into the nature of their anguish.