The Dissertation: Tinieblas Book Two (Tinieblas)

by R. M. Koster

Overview

The second book in R.M. Koster's highly acclaimed Tinieblas trilogy (following The Prince), The Dissertation is the story of--and a story by--Camilo Fuertes.

To fulfill his Ph.D. requirement, Fuertes decides to write about his father, the martyred president of Tinieblas, a country in Latin America. We follow Leon as he winds his twisted path through delinquency, learning, bravery, and incest to the presidency. At once a powerful vision of Latin American history and a brilliant parody of the academic form--complete with endnotes!--The Dissertation is an essential postmodern novel in the tradition of Vonnegut, Barth and Nabokov, ready to be embraced by a new generation of readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781468309096
Publisher:	The Overlook Press
Publication date:	12/16/2013
Series:	Tinieblas , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
File size:	883 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

R.M. Koster was born in Brooklyn and has lived in Panama since 1957. He is the author of five novels and one work of contemporary history, and has had parallel careers as a university professor, reporter, and political activist. His shorter work has been published in the New Republic, Harper’s, and Connoisseur, among others.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"It gave me a lot of pleasure. As with Pale Fire, it's the [end]notes I cherish and will read and reread." —Anthony Burgess"One of the few books of the past 20 years that deserves to be called astonishing. It is a brilliant novel, structurally a marvel and, in all, a demonstration of elan as that quality seldom is experienced in a work of fiction." —Des Moines Sunday Register