The history of silence / Pedro Zarraluki ; translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza García.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zarraluki, Pedro, 1954-

Contributor:

Caistor, Nick, translator.

Garcia, Lorenza, translator.

Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Historia del silencio. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Silence--Fiction.

Silence.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

189 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Madrid, Spain : Hispabooks, 2014.

Summary:

Shows us to what extent life is a comedy under the constant threat of a tragic ending. The two main charactes in the story, a writer and a publisher romantically involved, have a sudden and funny idea while driving through a deserted landscape: Why not write a book about silence? As the book grows, including stories of friends, questions ("why is silence awkward at a dinner with friends but not on top of a mountain ?") quotations from philosophers and writers, the writer and the publisher stop talking to each other, as if they themselves became objects of their research.

Notes:

"Originally published in Spain as La historia del silencio by Anagrama, 1994" --Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

ISBN:

9788494283062

8494283065

OCLC:

894590527