Recital of the dark verses / Luis Felipe Fabre ; translated by Heather Cleary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fabre, Luis Felipe, 1974- author.

Contributor:

Cleary, Heather, translator.

Standardized Title:

Declaración de las canciones oscuras. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

John of the Cross, Saint, 1542-1591--Fiction.

John of the Cross.

John of the Cross, Saint, 1542-1591.

Genre:

Biographical fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Picaresque fiction.

Physical Description:

176 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"A masterful undertaking of historical literature, following sixteenth-century religious fervor in a picaresque novel about Saint John of the Cross. In August 1592, a bailiff and his two assistants arrive at the monastery of Úbeda, with the secret task of transferring the body of Saint John of the Cross, the great Carmelite poet and mystic who had died the previous year, to his final abode in Segovia. When they exhume him, they find a body incorrupted and as fresh as when he died. Thus commences a series of adventures and misfortunes, with characters that seem to be drawn from mythology. The story written by Luis Felipe Fabre masterfully intertwines with the verses of the friar, as if in them he had prophesied the delirium that would surround his own posthumous transfer. Fabre's text is a highly entertaining novel, full of a sense of humor that manages to honor the mystical poetry of the Carmelite while inviting the reader to reflect on issues such as the sacred and the profane, the body and the soul, and spiritual (and carnal) ecstasy"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version: Fabre, Luis Felipe, 1974- Recital of the dark verses.

ISBN:

9781646052790

164605279X

OCLC:

1380429043