Uselessness: A Novel
by Eduardo Lalo /
2017 / English / EPUB
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The streets of Paris at night are pathways coursing with light
and shadow, channels along which identity may be formed and lost,
where the grand inflow of history, art, language, and thought—and
of love—can both inspire and enfeeble. For the narrator of
Eduardo Lalo’s
The streets of Paris at night are pathways coursing with light
and shadow, channels along which identity may be formed and lost,
where the grand inflow of history, art, language, and thought—and
of love—can both inspire and enfeeble. For the narrator of
Eduardo Lalo’sUselessness
Uselessness, it is a world long desired.
But as this young aspiring writer discovers upon leaving his home
in San Juan to study—to live and be reborn—in the city of his
dreams, Paris’s twinned influences can rip you apart.
, it is a world long desired.
But as this young aspiring writer discovers upon leaving his home
in San Juan to study—to live and be reborn—in the city of his
dreams, Paris’s twinned influences can rip you apart.
Lalo’s first novel,
Lalo’s first novel,Uselessness
Uselessness is something of a
bildungsroman of his own student days in Paris. But more than
this, it is a literary précis of his oeuvre—of themes that obsess
him still. Told in two parts,
is something of a
bildungsroman of his own student days in Paris. But more than
this, it is a literary précis of his oeuvre—of themes that obsess
him still. Told in two parts,Uselessness
Uselessness first follows
our narrator through his romantic and intellectual awakenings in
Paris, where he elevates his adopted home over the moribund one
he has left behind. But as he falls in and out of love he comes
to realize that as a Puerto Rican, he will always be apart.
Ending the greatest romance of his life—that with the city of
Paris itself—he returns to San Juan. And in this new era of his
life, he is forced to confront choices made, ambitions lost or
unmet—to look upon lives not lived.
first follows
our narrator through his romantic and intellectual awakenings in
Paris, where he elevates his adopted home over the moribund one
he has left behind. But as he falls in and out of love he comes
to realize that as a Puerto Rican, he will always be apart.
Ending the greatest romance of his life—that with the city of
Paris itself—he returns to San Juan. And in this new era of his
life, he is forced to confront choices made, ambitions lost or
unmet—to look upon lives not lived.
A tale of the travails of youthful romance and adult acceptance,
of foreignness and isolation both at home and abroad, and of the
stultifying power of the desire to belong—and to be
moved—
A tale of the travails of youthful romance and adult acceptance,
of foreignness and isolation both at home and abroad, and of the
stultifying power of the desire to belong—and to be
moved—Uselessness
Uselessness is here rendered into English by the
masterful translator Suzanne Jill Levine. For anyone who has been
touched by the disquieting passion of Paris,
is here rendered into English by the
masterful translator Suzanne Jill Levine. For anyone who has been
touched by the disquieting passion of Paris,Uselessness
Uselessness
is a stirring saga.
is a stirring saga.
