Adonis
Garcia : A Picaresque Novel by
Luis Zapata
Translation
of Las aventuras, desventuras y suenos de Adonis Garcia, el
vampiro de la Colonia Rosa
Adonis
Garcia is a hustler who plies his trade in the streets and meeting
places of Mexico City. His picaresque adventures in the Mexican
gay sub-culture (which has its own rich slang) are detailed in
this prize-winning novel translated into English for the first
time.
"This novel -- made up of
poverty, desperate sexuality, sickness, hunger, persecution,
abandonment and outlaw elements -- turns out to be, by a sort of
magical transformation, a positive, cheerful, even optimistic book
... Luis Zapata stands revealed as one of the most radical
contemporary Mexican novelists; his novel contributes to the
struggle for the civil rights of the homosexual; it constitutes an
ironic criticism of the use and misuse of language, of existing
political and social structures, of the mass-consumption society,
of deadening, alienating labor. . . " -- José Joaquín
Blanco
