Monk in the Wilderness

Reality is so monstrous that sometimes it's not even worth the effort to take it seriously. To explain it, we have to imagine grotesque figures; we have to backlight it among undecipherable scrawls in the hopes of finding some coherence in their outline. This novel by Fernando Contreras, originally published in Spanish under the title Los Peor in 1995, employs multiple ways of looking, ranging fro...