Finally available in paperback, one of the neglected masterpieces of Latin American literature -- an obsessive, yet lucid, exploration of the human body as a nexus of power and pleasure.Twenty-year-old Rene is sent to be groomed at a boarding schoolwhose motto is: Suffer in silence. It is there that his education inthe service of pain begins."
Finally available in paperback, one of the neglected masterpieces of Latin American literature -- an obsessive, yet lucid, exploration of the human body as a nexus of power and pleasure.Twenty-year-old Rene is sent to be groomed at a boarding schoolwhose motto is: Suffer in silence. It is there that his education inthe service of pain begins."