Carlos Rojas

DIV In Carlos Rojasâ€™s imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico GarcÃ­a Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughelâ€™s Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small theater in this private hell, viewing scenes from his own life performed over and over and over. Unexpectedly, two doppelgÃ¤ngers appear, one a middle-aged Lorca, the other an irascible octogenarian self, and the poet faces a nightmarish confusion of alternative identities and destinies. Carlos Rojas uses a fantastic premiseâ€”GarcÃ­a Lorca in hellâ€”to reexamine the poetâ€™s life and speculate on alternatives to his tragic end. Rojas creates with a surrealistâ€™s eye and a moral philosopherâ€™s mind. He conjures a profoundly original world, and in so doing earns a place among such international peers as Gabriel GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez, Philip Roth, J. M. Coetzee, and JosÃ© Saramago. /div

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