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René's Flesh

Virgilio Piñera

3.83/5 (96 ratings)

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Rene is 20, ripe for education in the cult of flesh, "not of intact, athletic flesh, but of slain meat, truly alive and throbbing like a wound." Rene's father exhorts him to elect the path of suffering, sending the reluctant hero to a school for pain and torture where the doctrine that "knowledge must be beaten into a person" is implemented literally. Pinera, a Cuban, fashions a world that is completely carnal--only sometimes erotic--where slaughterhouses are given names like those of banks ("The Equitable Butchers Shop"), where man himself is meat or flesh destined for the knife and where freedom is achieved only by the willing sacrifice of that flesh.

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ISBN10:: 156886017X

ISBN13:: 9781568860176

kindle Asin:: 156886017X

René's Flesh

Virgilio Piñera

3.83/5 (96 ratings)

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Rene is 20, ripe for education in the cult of flesh, "not of intact, athletic flesh, but of slain meat, truly alive and throbbing like a wound." Rene's father exhorts him to elect the path of suffering, sending the reluctant hero to a school for pain and torture where the doctrine that "knowledge must be beaten into a person" is implemented literally. Pinera, a Cuban, fashions a world that is completely carnal--only sometimes erotic--where slaughterhouses are given names like those of banks ("The Equitable Butchers Shop"), where man himself is meat or flesh destined for the knife and where freedom is achieved only by the willing sacrifice of that flesh.

Format:

Pages:: 256 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:

Language:

ISBN10:: 156886017X

ISBN13:: 9781568860176

kindle Asin:: 156886017X

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