Rambling Raconteur | Larva ♾️ Midsummer Night’s Babel by Julián Ríos 🇪🇸 Joyce’s Successor: Coherent Excess and Chaos @ramblingraconteur1616 | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
A discussion of the highly unconventional novel by Ríos, translated by Richard Alan Francis, Suzanne Jill Levine, and the author.

0:00 Introduction
2:11 Reading Larva
9:39 Literary References
16:42 Recommended if you like

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