""Language is not for God, but for man to get beyond his primitive feelings...""In Frederick Mark Kramer's They Shall Not Pass: A Novel of Manhattan and Madrid, the interior ruminations of disembodied, anonymous voices twist together in slow, constant alternation, and we gradually come to know four main figures: Jacobo, an American who fought in the Spanish Civil War and then returned to New York; Esmeralda, the woman he loved in Spain, who unbeknownst to Jacobo later moved to New York with their child; Conchita, her granddaughter, an actress in experimental off-off-Broadway productions; and Joseph, Jacobo's grandson by his later marriage, who becomes Conchita's lover. The weave of their reflective monologues summons up with uncanny concreteness and detail an all-encompassing world: of their past loves, and of the vast but intimate New York City they all shared.""A thought being thought but not felt is not a thought just a mirage...""
By:
Frederick Mark Kramer Imprint: Sagging Meniscus Press Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 148mm,
Spine: 34mm
Weight: 712g ISBN:9781963846263 ISBN 10: 1963846265 Pages: 606 Publication Date:13 May 2025 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active