AEGiS-BKREV: Christ on the Rue Jacob

Christ on the Rue Jacob

Mercury House, 785 Market St. Ste 1500, San Francisco, CA 94103. 166p. ISBN 1-56279-075-7. $12.95.
Severo Sarduy, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, Carol Maier. 1995.

This book was originally published as El Cristo de la rue Jacob in 1987. Sarduy was an exceptional writer who, in this book, "touches on literature, visual imagery, displacements of gender and genre, Buddhism, friendship, fragmentation and wholeness, the meetings and marriages of East and West and of high and low, the playful and the transcendent, the flamboyant gesture and the withdrawal into meditation." It is a delightful and beautiful book to read in an evening by the fireside, full of many things to think about and then return to for a second reading. The book itself has nothing to do with AIDS as a disease but it is by a Cuban-born writer who died of AIDS in 1993. Recommended for public and academic libraries.

Keywords: Novel

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