Year:
1992
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Farrar Straus & Giroux
City:
Stuttgart
Year of publication:
1994
Pages:
250
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
Sexual content:
Violent content:
Vulgar or obscene language:
Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
Peter Handke, Nobel Prize winner in 2019, wrote this work in 1990. The jukebox was a machine used in bars to select CDs and songs. It was in fashion in the 60s and 70s. In actual fact, this book is a meta-story, that is to say, a story about how to write a story.
The highlights of this book are the descriptions of the places where it travels to: Soria, Logroño, Burgos and Saragossa. One also finds Christian references which speak of the Romanesque beauty of the Church of St Dominic in Soria, Saint Teresa, etc.
The author admires the works of the Spanish mystics of the 16th century. He knows how to pique the reader’s interest through the beauty of his descriptions and his clever and tight narration.
Author: José Ignacio Peláez Albendea, Spain
Update on: Jan 2020