The False Years - Josefina Vicens

[Luke]

The False Years, Josefina Vicens, translated from Spanish by Peter G. Earle, 1982, Mexico, NOVEL

"...Through rambling memories, dialogue, and description, Luis Alfonso relives his life with his father and contemplates the slow transfer of his father's life to his own: the change in his relationship with his mother, the job with the dirty politicians, the mistress, Elena, and his "ineffable, delicious horror of sharing her." Written in spare and fluidly descriptive prose, this young man's private graveside monologue provides a unique and poetic critique of contemporary Mexican society."

(J.L., p. 164)