Revulsion : Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador

Revulsion : Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador
ISBN: 9780811225397
Publication Date: 2 August 2016

An expatriate professor, Vega, returns from exile in Canada to El Salvador for his mother's funeral. A sensitive idealist and an aggrieved motor mouth, he sits at a bar with the author, Castellanos Moya, from five to seven in the evening, telling his tale and ranting against everything his country has to offer. Written in a single paragraph and alive with a fury as astringent as the wrath of Thomas Bernhard, Revulsion ;was first published in 1997 and earned its author death threats. Roberto Bolano called Revulsion ;Castellanos Moya's darkest book and perhaps his best: "A parody of certain works by Bernhard and the kind of book that makes you laugh out loud."