SEVEN SERPENTS AND SEVEN MOONS. by Aguilera Malta, Demetrio (1909-1981)

SEVEN SERPENTS AND SEVEN MOONS. by Aguilera Malta, Demetrio (1909-1981) < >

SEVEN SERPENTS AND SEVEN MOONS.

Edition: First US printing.

Austin: University of Texas Press, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel considered to be the most important by this influential and award-winning Ecuadorian writer, director, painter, and diplomat. He was a member of the Guayaquil Group of the 1930s, who used social realism in their writings, but this novel is notable for its use of magic realism - and humor - to "illustrate both symbolically and literally many of the essential problems that bedevil Latin America." Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. A title in the Texas Pan American Series. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-292775520.

Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)

Book ID: 81927
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