Bomarzo

Kirjan Bomarzo (2025) on kirjoittanut Manuel Mujica Láinez. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut New York Review Books. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 800 sivua ja se on nidottu.

" Bomarzo] is a novel that will make any reader happy. .. . A] novel to be read aloud, with the whole family gathered around. " --Roberto Bola o A lavishly written gothic historical fantasy novel that centers around Pier Francesco Orsini, the tortured duke of Bomarzo and creator of the Italian town's famously bizarre "Garden of the Monsters. " Pier Francesco Orsini, duke of Bomarzo, created a park of monsters in which the nightmares of the Renaissance are preserved, set in stone yet still writhingly alive. In Bomarzo, Manuel Mujica Lainez--one of the great Argentine novelists of the twentieth century--re-creates the dark and legendary duke as a brilliant memoirist recalling the trials and travails of his sixteenth-century life from a modern point of view (Freudian psychoanalysis and Lolita both put in an appearance) while ensconced in a city that sounds suspiciously like Mujica Lainez's own Buenos Aires. Bomarzo is a historical novel in the grand manner, a first-person portrait of an aristocratic hunchback bullied by his family and determined to prove a villain (a portrait so convincing that Edmund Wilson assumed it to be fact). It is also, of course, a commentary on such historical fictions. But above all it's an immersive story told in a sumptuous style--a bit as if Proust were rewriting one of Poe's Italian tales--as Gregory Rabassa's translation (out of print for many years) conveys beautifully.