{"product_id":"bomarzo-paperback-1","title":"Bomarzo - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eManuel Mujica Lainez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGregory Rabassa\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eÀlvaro Enrigue\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eBomarzo\u003c\/i\u003e] is a novel that will make any reader happy.... [A] novel to be read aloud, with the whole family gathered around.\" --Roberto Bolaño \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForty miles north of Rome, near the village of Bomarzo, Pier Francesco Orsini created a park of monstrous statuary in which the nightmares of the Renaissance stand preserved in stone. In \u003ci\u003eBomarzo, \u003c\/i\u003eManuel Mujica Lainez--one of the major Argentine novelists of the twentieth century--re-creates the dark and legendary duke as a briliant memoirist. From beyond the grave, in a city that sounds suspiciously like Mujica Lainez's own Buenos Aires, Orsini--who now knows his Freud and has read \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e--looks back at the trials and travails of his sixteenth-century life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBomarzo\u003c\/i\u003e is a historical novel in the grand manner, a first-person portrait of a hunchback bullied by his family and determined to prove a villain. It is also a commentary on such historical fictions. But above all it is an immersive story told in a sumptuous style--like one of Poe's Italian tales rewritten by Proust--as Gregory Rabassa's translation beautifully conveys.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eManuel Mujica Láinez\u003c\/b\u003e (1910-1984) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina--a city that one of his ancestors had helped to found. It was also the city where he was raised, though with long periods away in Paris and London, where he studied French and English. Not long after returning to Argentina, he dropped out of law school to pursue a career as a writer. Several of his novels revolve around the history of Buenos Aires, though he is perhaps best remembered for a fantasy novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Wandering Unicorn \u003c\/i\u003e(1965), and \u003ci\u003eBomarzo\u003c\/i\u003e (1962), which was awarded the John F. Kennedy Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGregory Rabassa\u003c\/b\u003e (1922-2016) was born in Yonkers, New York. One of the most respected translators of his generation, he brought the work of many writers into English--among them Machado de Assis, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Clarice Lispector, and Mario Vargas Llosa. He was the recipient of the PEN Translation Prize, the Gregory Kolovakos Award, and the first National Book Award in Translation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eÁlvaro Enrigue \u003c\/b\u003ehas been a fellow in the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de México, the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library, and the program in Latin American studies at Princeton University. He is the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, among them \u003ci\u003eSudden Death\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNow I Surrender\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eYou Dreamed of Empires\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at Hofstra University.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 688\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 05, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43479649910919,"sku":"9781681379418","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/u5GA_fV43R9781681379418.webp?v=1763315579","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/bomarzo-paperback-1","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}