Bend Sinister

Resumen del libro

The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist, the leader of the new party, is his old school enemy, Paduk known as the Toad'. Grieving over his wife's recent death, Krug is at first dismissive of Paduk's activities and sees no threat in them. But the sinister machine which Paduk has set in motion may prove stronger than the individual, stronger even than the grotesque Toad' himself.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas (Barcelona, 1939) es profesor investigador de Literatura Española y Latinoamericana de la Universidad de Westmins ter de Londres, ciudad en la que reside desde hace más de treinta años. Además de su recono cida faceta de crítico literario en España y Améri ca Latina, ha traducido, entre otros, a Cesare Pa vese, Djuna Barnes, Carson McCullers y Robert Coover, es autor de la antología de cuentos espa ñoles contemporáneos x{0026}lt;em The Origins of Desirex{0026}lt;/em (Londres, 1993) y de las colecciones de poemas x{0026}lt;em El jardín aciagox{0026}lt;/em (Premio Carlos Ortiz, Barcelona, 1985), x{0026}lt;em La casa de la malezax{0026}lt;/em (Barcelona, 1992), x{0026}lt;em En el bosque de Celiax{0026}lt;/em (Altea, 1995; México, 1998), y x{0026}lt;em Los espejos del marx{0026}lt;/em (Tenerife, 1998).x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p Foto Alina López Cámarax{0026}lt;/p