Senselessness - Horacio Castellanos Moya

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Acclaimed Salvadoran author Moyas astounding debut in English has a peculiarly lighthearted, and in fact comic air even as it is tormented by the violence of history (El Pais). nA boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the armys massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. The writers job is to tidy it up: he rants, that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and giving a manicure to the Catholic hands that were piously getting ready to squeeze the balls of the military tiger. Mesmerized by the strange Vallejo-like poetry of the Indians phrases (the houses they were sad because no people were inside them), the increasingly agitated and frightened writer is endangered twice over: by the spell the strangely beautiful heart-rending voices exert over his tenuous sanity, and by real danger--after all, the murderers are the very generals who still run this unnamed Latin American country.

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