Dark Desires and the Others Russian Literature Series The "book as book" has

The "book as book" has been removed from the oral tradition by such features as prefaces

Porta launches an investigation of the limits of language

for—as Dostoevsky knew—it is impossible for realism to portray a society whose corruption is literally fantastic

Olga Vassilieff

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Dark Desires and the Others Russian Literature Series The "book as book" hasDark Desires is the author's autobiographical fantasia on the ten years she spent living in New York City. Valenzuela has called this book her "apocryphal autobiography." "Here I am," writes Luisa Valenzuela, "submerged in a sea of notebooks . . ." Dark Desires is the author's autobiographical fantasia on the ten years she spent living in New York City. Valenzuela has called this book her "apocryphal autobiography," and in it she says very little