A masterpiece of modernist fiction about one mans search for meaning Dreamof Reason La sinrazon reveals Rosa Chacel as an intellectual and literaryinnovator who... » 

A masterpiece of modernist fiction about one mans search for meaning Dreamof Reason La sinrazon reveals Rosa Chacel as an intellectual and literaryinnovator whose work stands alongside that of Joyce Proust and Woolf. Thismeditative novel grounded in the thinking of Spains great modern philosopherOrtega y Gasset unfolds as the journal of a bourgeois chemist who makes hisway in Buenos Aires just before and during the Spanish Civil War. Tracing hisrelationship with three women Santiago Hernandez explores the power of his ownintentions and the limits of human reason. His introspective experiment setagainst the background of worldaltering events documents the workings of aselfabsorbed mind speculating on the inseparability of self and circumstanceand is a brilliant enactment of how from such tensions narrative emerges. «