Hallucinations: Or, the Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando

By Reinaldo Arenas

Book Overview

In the brilliant tradition of Don Quixote and Candide , this passionate novel by the author of Before Night Falls is a modern masterpiece of Latin American fiction. Fray Servando--priest, blasphemer, dueler of monsters, irresistible lover, misunderstood prophet, prisoner, and consummate escape artist--wanders among the vice-ridden populations of eighteenth-century Europe and the Americas, fleeing dungeons, a marriage-minded woman, a slave ship captain, and the Inquisition. Whether by burro, by boat, or by the back of a whale, Fray Servando's journey is at once funny and romantic, melancholy and profound--a tale rooted in history, yet outrageously hallucinatory. "An impenitent amalgam of truth and invention, historical fact and outrageous make-believe . . . a philosophical black comedy."-- The New York Times

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142000191
• ISBN13: 9780142000199
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.7"