
Loquela
"[Labbé] wreaks havoc on narrative rules from the start and keeps doing it."—Bookforum
Loquela, Carlos Labbé''s fourth novel and second to be translated into English, is a narrative chameleon, a shape-shifting exploration of fiction''s possibilities.
At a basic level, this book is like a hybrid of Julio Cortázar and Paul Auster: a distorted detective novel, a love story, and a radical statement abou...
"[Labbé] wreaks havoc on narrative rules from the start and keeps doing it."—Bookforum
Loquela, Carlos Labbé''s fourth novel and second to be translated into English, is a narrative chameleon, a shape-shifting exploration of fiction''s possibilities.
At a basic level, this book is like a hybrid of Julio Cortázar and Paul Auster: a distorted detective novel, a love story, and a radical statement abou...