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What the Night Tells the Day

By Bianciotti, Hector & Coverdale, Linda

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Compared to Conrad, Nabokov, and Beckett by Octavio Paz, Argentine-born Hector Bianciotti is one of the leading literary figures in his adopted homeland of France. What the Night Tells the Day, his first novel to be translated into English, is the fictionalized story of Bianciotti's youth among poor immigrant peasants in rural Argentina during the late years of the Pern regime, and a moving and sensitive portrayal of a boy's discovery of his own homosexuality.

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ISBN
978-1-56584-240-3
Publisher
New Press


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Reviewed on April 15, 1995

This autobiographical novel by Le Monde's literary correspondent stems primarily from Bianciotti's sense of not belonging in the land of his birth, Argentina, as a result of the agoraphobia brought on by the endless pampas, the disdain of native Argentines for Italian immigrants, and the Peronist repression of his emerging homosex...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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