{"product_id":"9780872867468","title":"The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicaresque novel of the Spanish Civil War written by one of the most important post-WWII members of the Surrealist Movement.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by Galician surrealist artist and revolutionary E.F. Granell, \u003cem\u003eThe Novel of the Tupinamba Indian\u003c\/em\u003e is a picaresque, Cervantes-influenced allegory of the Spanish Civil War. Set against a cruel landscape peopled by generals, priests, conquistadors, poets, witches, and nuns, \u003cem\u003eTupinamba Indian\u003c\/em\u003e embodies Granell's wartime experiences while transforming them through his lush and incendiary surrealist imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Novel of the Tupinamba Indian\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In an ever-shifting world populated by nameless, iconic stock figures, the Tupinamba Indian (whose head, slashed off by a conquistador, remains detachable\/attachable in a brilliant metaphor for colonialism) wanders, stumbles, and thrives in a war landscape where time and space morph. … A war novel, a political allegory not only of the late '30s but also our current political moment …\"—\u003cstrong\u003eGillian Conoley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Granell's Tupinamba Indian magnificently registers the author's experience with the didactic inferno of war and his ability to imaginatively ascend above it.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eWill Alexander\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An exceptional sense of humor filters through [Granell's] war experience, fleecing expectations and convictions, and freeing him to levitate this personal and collective history into a madcap romp through a violated landscape. Where tragedy emerges with the Fascist victory, prologue to World War Two, laughter curdles its edges then burns it up. … No group is sacrosanct, no one beyond reproach, priests, intellectuals, and leader (aka Franco, our 'tiny Grand Turk'), included.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eAllan Graubard\u003c\/strong\u003e, co-editor of \u003cem\u003eInvisible Heads: Surrealists in North America - An Untold Story\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtist, writer, musician, socialist, professor, and veteran of the Spanish Civil War, \u003cstrong\u003eEugenio F. Granell\u003c\/strong\u003e (1912-2001) was one of the leading figures of the post-World War II international surrealist movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslator \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Coulter\u003c\/strong\u003e is an artist who currently divides his time between Berkeley, CA and Coimbra, Portugal, where he particpates with the Cabo Mondego Section of Portuguese Surrealism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032142397680,"sku":"9780872867468","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780872867468_p0.jpg?v=1763840274","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780872867468","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}