Christ Versus Arizona por Camilo Jose Cela, 9781564783417, disponible en Book Depository con envío gratis. Obra maestra del lenguaje duro y poético, la novela es narrada por un wendell liverpool que desconoce su procedencia y que por las pistas que nos da es un ser resignado y arrepentido que recorre impasible las atrocidades cometidas en arizona a principios del siglo XX en un parrafo enorme con un sólo punto. Tore up the book and put it into recycling so as not to inflict it on anybody else. today I walked into the library thinking about how my first son will be named after the legendary Wyatt Earp. Find books like Christ Versus Arizona from the world’s largest community of readers. Free delivery on qualified orders. Please try again. A rollicking Rabelasian invective, rightly furious, hilariously transgressive and ramblingly rant-filled, sustained with unflagging energy through a single two hundred odd page sentence full of cunts and cocks, pussies and putas, asses and abuse, incest and incontinence, violence and violation, bestiality and beating after beating after beating. Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. Filter by. All reviewers. Throw in scores of grotesque characters whose names are constantly being revised, give the uneducated and half-craze narrator a vocabulary worthy of Henry James, and you'll be even closer to Cela's concept. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Got to pg 7 out of 269. Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. Christ versus Arizona on Amazon.com.au. Corral in a single sentence that is more than one hundred pages long. Set against a backdrop of an Arizona influenced by the Mexican Revolution and the westward expansion of the United States, the story is a bravura performance by the 1989 Nobel Prize-winning author. Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. On one level it is 261 pages being told by, "My name is Wendell Espana, Wendell Liverpool Espana, or maybe it isn't Espana but Span or Aspen, I've never found out for sure, I've never seen it written down..." The book goes on for those 261 pages without a period. There was a problem loading your book clubs. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Jul 5, 2012 - Amazon.com: Christ versus Arizona (9781564783417): Camilo José Cela, Martin Sokolinsky: Books On October 23, 1927, the Mesa Arizona Temple was dedicated. Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. . See All Buying Options. The coming season is a big one for the science fiction and fantasy genres, with the release of some of 2021's most anticipated speculative... Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. ), to create a vivid and frequently grotesque picture of the American Southwest. Nonetheless, as a significant example of Cela's themes and stylistic inventiveness, scholars and fans will consider it an important addition to the author's English-translated works. Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. Christ versus Arizona Add to Wish List. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. Select a trip. USA-Arizona. Nada más se puede pedir de este libro salvo la enumeración caótica y deslumbrante de un maestro literario que nos hizo viajar desde la alcarria hasta arizona. Set against a backdrop of an Arizona influenced by the Mexican Revolution and the westward expansion of the United States, the story is a bravura performance by the 1989 Nobel Prize-winning author. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Structured as a monologue comprising a single 250-page-plus-long sentence, the book weaves together hundreds of characters, both fictional and real (Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, etc. Refresh and try again. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. We’d love your help. Please try again. One of the best and most interesting books I've read in a while. From the late 1960s, with the publication of San Camilo 1936, Cela's work became increasingly experimental. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Search. Liked it for its extreme, multifaceted virtuosity but it's certainly a difficult book to get through with its endless depravity and static structure in the form of a continuously revolving spiral of recurring characters and events. Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. Please try again. Find us on Google Maps. it was one long sentence. Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. Something went wrong. Family of Pascual Duarte (Spanish Literature Series), Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Ink), Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside (Winner of the Nobel Prize). My introduction to Tombstone, Arizona and wildwest folklore starts and ends with, Camilo Jose Cela, the Spanish Nobel laureate, writes formidable novels, 1951's The Hive, perhaps his most famous work, recreates a Madrid street through the conversation of characters mingling in a cafe, my favorite, San Camilo, 1936 tells about the beginning of the Spanish Civil War mostly in huge blocks of unparagraphed prose and, again, with multiple characters, Christ Versus Arizona is a portrait of Tombstone, Arizona and its citizens, especially those living on the cusp of respectability, a. Camilo Jose Cela, the Spanish Nobel laureate, writes formidable novels, 1951's The Hive, perhaps his most famous work, recreates a Madrid street through the conversation of characters mingling in a cafe, my favorite, San Camilo, 1936 tells about the beginning of the Spanish Civil War mostly in huge blocks of unparagraphed prose and, again, with multiple characters, Christ Versus Arizona is a portrait of Tombstone, Arizona and its citizens, especially those living on the cusp of respectability, as told by one Wendell Liverpool Espana, it's a panoramic snapshot of the town and its people in the period of the First World War, the stories and facts Wendell tells about these people--I jotted down a list of 313 characters as I read, even some animals are named, like Jefferson the caiman and Dorothy the rattlesnake--recur over and over again, in this way Cela simmers and stirs a kind of mythic stew made up of many types of characters and social groups, though, as I say, taken all together they form a kind of demimonde, some of the characters are real, the people and events associated with the famous gunfight at the OK Corral appear in the novel at various times until the whole story of that particular quarrel is told, Pancho Villa and Mabel Dodge and other historical figures periodically surface, but Cela is primarily concerned with presenting a vision of hell and the damned who're fated to endure the rigors of life in Tombstone, stones and death are themes bringing to mind grave markers but also are connected to Christ as that stone which was rolled away, as for how Christ is meant to relate to Arizona, a legal action involving Him and the state is referred to as is a journey by Christ to Arizona, which is, I gather, not completed, but the larger meaning, I think, hinted at only once, is that Arizona resists redemption, is too far beyond salvation for even Christ, structurally, this is a clamor of stories folded into the omelette of a 261-page sentence, a single block of prose, or, at least, Cela doesn't use periods or paragraphs, this is an oddity not uncommon in Spanish and Latin American fiction--I'm reminded of Juan Benet's brilliant single-paragraphed 366-page novel A Meditation, and the strained 63-page sentence with which Garcia Marquez ended The Autumn of the Patriarch--but I found myself thinking for the first time in reading Cela that whatever stylistic function he might intend is deflected by Christ Versus Arizona's self-consciously pointing to its lack of paragraphs and that commas are used in place of end stops, it sounds more daunting than it is, the prose is actually rhythmic and flows easily enough, I was thinking as I read that Cela could have made it more difficult by--like Joyce or Beckett, for instance--simply leaving it totally unpunctuated, even the huge number of characters is manageable, they're always mentioned by a full name and usually accompanied by a character trait providing a key to their identity, such as Blonde Marie or Rowdy Joe Lowe, another way in which characters stand out is the novel's focus on their race and ethnicity, most of the characters are Hispanic or black or American Indian or Chinese or many blends in between, and all these characters and their stories whirl around and carom off each other to form a vast portrait of Tombstone, as I say, the picture and atmosphere is that of a wasteland, physical as well as spiritual and emphasized by so much talk of death, indeed these people are already dead, Tombstone the town looms over them and their stories of hangings, violence, incest, illicit sex, and hardship, maybe in some ways Cela is the father of such novelists as David Markson and Gilbert Sorrentino who also wrote novels woven together by short, stabbing items forming a whole, but I also thought all during the reading that Christ Versus Arizona might have been a significant influence on Roberto Bolano's 2666 as well. La belleza de este libro es puramente verbal, es un ejercicio de lenguaje duro y eficaz tan radical que lo rechacé en una primera le. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Unfortunately, it is the best thing about the book. Unable to add item to List. Write a review. Another Raft Adrift on the Stream of Consciousness, Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2009. Cela won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. 150 North 18th Avenue. Mother a prostitute, child branded on butt at age 5, sexual relationship between mother & son, crocodile that can speak 3 languages & is supposed to have sex with mother. Different style, one sentence. and the Cervantes Prize in 1995. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published but a good one! Take the 'sensibilities' of a Cormac McCarthy novel like No Country for Old Men, the gruesome, inescapable, insensate violence, and toss the phrases in a blender... or else compose them with lapidary insistence in the style of Thomas Bernhard or a very depressed Robert Walser off his meds. In 1988 he wrote Cristo versus Arizona (Christ versus Arizona), which tells the story of the Gunfight at the O.K. To see what your friends thought of this book. Other members arrived in 1873, sent from Utah to colonize the area. Prolific author (as a novelist, journalist, essayist, literary magazine editor, lecturer ...), he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy for 45 years and won, among others, the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 1987, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989 ("for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.") There are no discussion topics on this book yet. 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