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008			090110s20011994nyu 000 1 eng
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020			_a9780140157185
050	0	0	_aPQ7390.A72 _bA813 1994
082	0	0	_aLAS FIC ARE
100	1		_aArenas, Reinaldo _d, 1943-1990
240	1	0	_aAsalto _l. English
245	1	4	_aThe assault _c/ Reinaldo Arenas ; translated by Andrew Hurley
260			_aNew York _b: Penguin Books _c, 2001, c1994.
300			_axi, 145 p. _c; 21 cm.
520			_aSet after the ``last big war'' in a society of ``degenerate beasts''--where human beings have snouts and claws and the criminals sport polished shaved heads--this is the final novel in the late Cuban-born Arenas's ``Pentagonia'' quintet ( Singing from the Well ; The Palace of the White Skunks , etc. ), a fictional exploration of Castro-era Cuba. Narrated by an agent for the ``Bureau of Counterwhispering,'' the novel details the agent's mission to find and execute whisperers against the ``Glorious Nation'' and its ``Represident.'' It's a country where ``no one has a name, and all orientations help to make sure that one stranger is exactly like every other stranger, so that no one can remember anybody in particular, and therefore no one can be remembered.'' His motivation, however, is more personal than political: a desire to find and kill his mother because he is ``coming to look more like her every day''--and herein lies the key to Arenas's parable.
655		7	_aAllegories
700	1		_aHurley, Andrew
942			_cMO
999			_c231041 _d231041