Description
In the stifling heat of 18th-century Paraguay, Don Diego de Zama, an ambitious Spanish official, finds his life reduced to a slow, agonizing wait for a promotion that never comes. Trapped in a provincial backwater, his days are consumed by boredom, unfulfilled desires, and the gnawing fear of insignificance. Through Zama's increasingly desperate and absurd internal monologues, Antonio Di Benedetto crafts a darkly comic and profound exploration of ambition, isolation, and the corrosive effects of time. This masterful novel dissects the existential plight of a man whose dreams have curdled into a suffocating reality, leaving him adrift in a world he can neither escape nor truly inhabit.
Available Editions
paperback
Adriana Hidalgo Editora
Published Sep 30, 2004
264 pages
ISBN: 9789879396476
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Details
First Published
1956
Language
spa
Translation
From: spa
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto.