The novices of Lerna /

The novices of Lerna /

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Author / Creator:	Bonomini, Ángel, author.
Uniform title:	Todos parecían soñar.
Imprint:	Berkely, California : Transit books, [2024] ©2024
Description:	159 pages ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction. Perception -- Fiction. Doppelgängers -- Fiction. Argentine literature. Switzerland -- Fiction. short stories. Short stories.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13503279

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Other authors / contributors:	Landsman, Jordan translator. Schulte, Sarah designer Carder, Justin letterer, designer.
ISBN:	9781945492853 1945492856
Notes:	In English, translated from Spanish.
Summary:	A forgotten masterpiece by an enigmatic master of Argentine fantastic literature. When unambitious scholar Ramón Beltra receives a mysterious invitation to a lucrative six-month fellowship at the University of Lerna in Switzerland, he reluctantly complies with the unusual qualifying paperwork requiring several pages of detailed measurements and photographs of his entire body. Beltra soon finds himself in the deserted university town of Lerna, together with twenty-three other "novices" subject to the same undisclosed project--all of them doppelgangers of Beltra himself. At first, Beltra is the only one to bristle at the school's dizzying array of rules and regulations, but this all changes with the onset of an uncontrollable epidemic, and the fellows begin dying off one by one... The Novices of Lerna introduces Bonomini's fantastic tales to English readers for the first time. Shot through with wry humor and tender absurdity, these meditations on identity, surveillance, and isolation remain eerily prescient. --

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