The Sovereign Communism middle-aged Souza lives a meaningless

middle-aged Souza lives a meaningless life in a world where hope is a lie and all memory of the past is forbidden

” each failed attempt at the writing desk only drives the effort endlessly

Not since Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Ferdinand Bardamu has a character appeared in fiction with such a bitter

"The sound of the words and of the sentences is highly musical

: that’s how my life runs

The Sovereign Communism middle-aged Souza lives a meaninglessThe Sovereign marks the centennial anniversary of the Jones Act as both paean and polemic for the history of the island nation. A hybrid chronicle stretching itself in every temporal direction, the charming magical realism of the Latin Boom (that forgot about Puerto Rico) is here warped by the uncanny spectacle of an emancipated colonial imaginary. The Sovereign is an extended meditation on what it means to be ecstatically freeand the blood price a