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02204aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 A36CF3E6533D11EC9185B7CB4CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211202010028 008 210327t20212021nyu e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1948830329 020 $a 9781948830324 035 $a (OCoLC)1243349579 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d PX0 $d JAS $d YDX $d ITD $d YDX $d IWA $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h spa 050 4 $a PQ6719 E84355 U4813x 2021 100 1 $a Serena, Javier, $d 1982- $e author. 240 10 $a UÌltimas palabras en la Tierra. $l English 245 10 $a Last words on Earth / $c Javier Serena ; translated from the Spanish by Katie Whittemore. 250 $a First Open Letter edition. 264 1 $a Rochester, NY : $b Open Letter, $c 2021. 300 $a 153 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a In exile from his home country of Peru, Ricardo Funes embodies the ultimate starving artist. Fired from almost every job he's held--usually for paying more attention to literature than work--he sets himself up in a rundown shack where he works on writing stories to enter in regional contests across Spain, and foisting his judgments about literature on anyone who will listen as one of the last remaining members of the "negacionismo" poetry movement. Completely dedicated to an unwavering belief in his own art, Funes struggles in anonymity until he achieves unbridled success with The Aztec and becomes a legend . . . at least for a moment. Diagnosed with lung cancer a few years later, Funes will only be able to enjoy his newfound attention for a short time. Told through the voices of Funes's best friend, his wife, and himself, Last Words on Earth looks at the price--and haphazard nature--of fame through the lens of a BolanÌo-esque writer who persevered just long enough to be transformed out of obscurity into being a literary legend right at the end of his life. 650 0 $a Artists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Lungs $x Cancer $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Whittemore, Katie, $e translator. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305042414.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010030956.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A36CF3E6533D11EC9185B7CB4CECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search