The Ship of Fools Peri Rossi CristinaPaperback
The Ship of Fools Peri Rossi CristinaPaperback The Ship of Fools has established Cristina Peri Rossi, author of a dozen other books of poetry and prose, as a leading writer in Europe and Latin…
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The Ship of Fools Peri Rossi CristinaPaperback
The Ship of Fools has established Cristina Peri Rossi, author of a dozen other books of poetry and prose, as a leading writer in Europe and Latin America. The wandering hero refuses to conform to an established order that can descend to the depths of militarism and machismo. This is her most important work in English and is recognized as a modern classic.The Ship of Fools subverts and reinvents the novel form, its characters, genders, and language, mixing fantasy and reality, medieval and modern.
All is resolved in the stunning climax that wittily overturns the traditional novel's progress of man and woman towards the marriage bed. The relationship between power and sex is posed in a series of ever more ambiguous events, dreams and riddles. "A glorious mess, baffling and alluring . . .
an] exercise of mind and emotion that can make sense of the universe without reducing