Description
A week after its first publication in El Salvador, this searing, novel-length monologue sparked controversy—and for good reason. Framed as a conversation between the narrator and a childhood friend, it unfolds as a relentless, bitter outpouring that turns personal memory into a sweeping indictment of the society that formed it. With confrontational, unsparing intensity, the narrative probes moral rot, political and social hypocrisy, collective complicity, and the corrosive forces that push people toward revulsion. Written in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s sharp, polemical style, it reads like an urgent refusal to look away, challenging complacency at every turn.
Available Editions
paperback
New Directions
Published Jul 26, 2016
128 pages
ISBN: 9780811225397
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Details
First Published
2016
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Revulsion by Horacio Castellanos Moya.