Full name: Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador

Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780811225397 0811225399

An expatriate professor, Vega, returns from exile in Canada to El Salvador for his mother's funeral. A sensitive idealist and an aggrieved motor mouth, he sits at a bar with the author, Castellanos Moya, from five to seven in the evening, telling his tale and ranting against everything his country has to offer. Written in a single paragraph and alive with a fury as astringent as the wrath of Thomas Bernhard, Revulsionwas first published in 1997 and earned its author death threats. Roberto Bolano called Revulsion Castellanos Moya's darkest book and perhaps his best: "A parody of certain works by Bernhard and the kind of book that makes you laugh out loud." Similar books: Tyrant Memory by Horacio Castellanos Moya Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde The She-Devil in the Mirror by Horacio Castellanos Moya Empire Falls by Richard Russo Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson 2666 by Roberto Bolano Buying the Farm by Kimberly Conn Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver The Dream of My Return by Horacio Castellanos Moya Harbor of the Heart by Katherine Spencer We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates Everyman by Philip Roth The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton South of Broad by Pat Conroy Old School by Tobias Wolff The Big Free by Martha B. Boone