Neues mexikanisches Kino / Nuevo cine mexicano Aus dem mexikanischen Spanisch von Rike Bolte
Luis Felipe Fabre Bücher
Luis Felipe Fabre ist ein mexikanischer Dichter, Essayist, Literaturprofessor und Herausgeber. Sein Werk zeichnet sich durch einen spielerischen und ironischen Sprachansatz aus, der die Grenzen der Poesie erforscht und Themen wie Identität, Geschichte und Kultur untersucht. Fabres Schaffen gilt als bedeutender Beitrag zur zeitgenössischen hispanischen Literatur.
A masterful undertaking of historical literature, following 16th 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.