The Dream of My Return, by Horacio Castellanos Moya
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A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador.
Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning home to El Salvador. But is it really a dream or a nightmare? When he decides to treat his liver pain with hypnosis, his few impulse-control mechanisms rapidly dissolve. Hair-brained schemes, half-mad arguments, unraveling murder plots, hysterical rants: everything escalates at a maniacal pace, especially the crazy humor.
The Dream of My Return, by Horacio Castellanos Moya- Amazon Sales Rank: #398782 in Books
- Brand: Moya, Horacio Castellanos/ Silver, Katherine (TRN)
- Published on: 2015-03-10
- Released on: 2015-03-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .60" w x 5.20" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
Review “Brilliant and devastating and incredibly beautiful.” (Chris Faatz - Powells.com)“Brilliantly funny and unsettling… Castellanos Moya has turned anxiety into an art form and an act of rebellion, and redeemed paranoia as a positive indicator of rot.” (Natasha Wimmer - The Nation)“A welcome, eye-opening addition to this new literature of the Latin American nightmare.” (Anderson Tepper - Time Out New York)“Acid humor, like a Buster Keaton movie or a time bomb.” (Roberto Bolaño)
About the Author Horacio Castellanos Moya was born 1957 in Honduras. He has lived in San Salvador, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico (where he spent ten years as a journalist, editor, and political analyst), Spain, and Germany. In 1988 he won the National Novel Prize from Central American University for his first novel. His work has been published and translated in England, Germany, El Salvador and Costa Rica. He has published ten novels and is now living in exile as part of the City of Asylum project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you By R. M. Peterson It is 1991, in Mexico City. Erasmo Aragón is a poet/journalist in exile from El Salvador. He had fled the murder and mayhem of the Civil War about a decade earlier; his father had been murdered as had his cousin; he, too, may have seen or done or said things that, in those surreal times, would have earned him torture and elimination. But now the Civil War is ending and Erasmo dreams of returning to El Salvador and launching a political magazine.THE DREAM OF MY RETURN is Erasmo's manic, paranoid, alcohol-fueled account of the month or so before he boards a plane to San Salvador. Except for his common-law wife and their daughter, virtually everyone he associates with is a Salvadoran refugee of one political stripe or another, each with his own memories and fears of his native land. Erasmo goes to a doctor for treatment of his severe liver pains; the doctor turns out to be a Salvadoran who had been forced into exile after treating a wounded man who turned out to be a guerilla fighter. The doctor persuades Erasmo to undergo hypnosis, and later, after the doctor is reported to have disappeared, Erasmo fears that in those sessions he revealed to the doctor information that would place him on somebody's death list. On one level, Erasmo knows he is being paranoid, but at the same time there has been more than enough in recent Salvadoran history to justify that paranoia. (As the saying commonly attributed to Joseph Heller goes, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.")Erasmo Aragón is the grandson of Pericles and Haydée Aragón, the couple at the center of Castellanos Moya's earlier novel, "Tyrant Memory". That novel dealt with the political turmoil -- and deaths and ruined lives -- of El Salvador in the years before the Civil War. Here, Castellanos Moya turns his attention to the Civil War itself and, even more so, to the scared and stunted lives of the innumerable refugees from that War. Can they return? Or is that just a dream? In addition to the connections to "Tyrant Memory", there also clearly is an autobiographical component to THE DREAM OF MY RETURN: Castellanos Moya himself had left El Salvador during the Civil War, to go into exile in Mexico City, and then, in 1991, he returned to El Salvador (only to leave it again several years later).This is the fourth novel by Castellanos Moya that I have read. The first was "Senselessness", which is one of the best works of contemporary fiction I read over the past decade. THE DREAM OF MY RETURN is not on that plane. Once again, the prose is super-charged, with long, sometimes repetitious sentences that nonetheless are easy enough to track and read. There is plenty of acerbic humor as well as sexual fantasies and banter. It probably will resonate with Salvadorans and other Latin Americans from similar political maelstroms, but for this American gringo, while better than average, it is not great.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. “Finally I was going to [carry] out an act that would consolidate my masculinity on many different levels…” By Mary Whipple In a novel which defies genre, author Horacio Castellanos Moya takes paranoia to new and often darkly humorous heights as Erasmo Aragon, a journalist who has been living in exile in Mexico, tries to fulfill his dream of returning to his home in El Salvador, now that that country is beginning to seem less dangerous. The author’s own real-life experience as an exile adds verisimilitude to the novel, and his sense of perspective regarding his own life allows him to depict Erasmo's over-reactions and his chronic dithering with a kind of humor rare in a novel about revolutions and revolutionaries.Unmarried, Erasmo has been living with Eva and their little daughter Evita for several years, but he is now looking forward to returning “home” for a journalism project. Eva and Evita will remain behind in Mexico, not for idealistic reasons on Erasmo's part, but because Eva has had an affair with another man, and the speaker is outraged. His past, detailed here, certainly has not been without its own traumas, and Don Chente Alvarado, the retired physician treating him, suggests acupuncture to relieve his anxiety, and later hypnosis. When Don Chente refuses to tell Erasmo what he has said under hypnosis, he imagines “crimes” he fears he may have admitted, and these lead to even more agitation.The depiction of Erasmo Aragon's high anxiety and his imagined conclusions about his health and his life ring true for the reader, who quickly becomes involved in the psychological “action.” As he is thinking about the past and the political activities of some of the friends and family with whom he is still involved, the reader, too, begins to imagine all the ways in which Erasmo may be being “set up” for disaster by these “friends.” Soon the reader becomes as pre-occupied with Erasmo's problems as he is, worrying about his decisions and his plans to return to El Salvador. As complications and danger develop, the novel races to its conclusion, a wickedly sardonic ending which makes complete sense but comes as a huge surprise.Of the four novels by Castellanos Moya which have been translated into English, this is the lightest, and though it has some serious ideas, it is also the funniest and most seductively involving. Translator Katherine Silver, who keeps the stream-of-consciousness style running nonstop in colloquial English, also makes the details so lively that the story is both compelling and full of fun. Though Castellanos Moya speaks out in his novels about human rights, political crimes, repression, dictatorships, and executions, he clearly realizes that there is a limit to how much horror a reader can process at one time, and he often uses his sense of irony and dark humor, strategically employed, to highlight his themes and plots in new ways, making them palatable and far more memorable for their irony. A short novel with a big impact for the reader.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Wryly written and tense, exploring the margins between the ... By Gwen Wilson Wryly written and tense, exploring the margins between the real and the surreal--reminiscent of Borges or early Umberto Eco.
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