{"product_id":"dream-of-reason-9780803263642","title":"Dream of Reason","description":"A masterpiece of modernist fiction about one man's search for meaning, \u003ci\u003eDream of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eLa sinraz?n\u003c\/i\u003e) reveals Rosa Chacel as an intellectual and literary innovator whose work stands alongside that of Joyce, Proust, and Woolf. This meditative novel, grounded in the thinking of Spain's great modern philosopher Ortega y Gasset, unfolds as the journal of a bourgeois chemist who makes his way in Buenos Aires just before and during the Spanish Civil War. Tracing his relationship with three women, Santiago Hern?ndez explores the power of his own intentions and the limits of human reason. His introspective experiment, set against the background of world-altering events, documents the workings of a self-absorbed mind speculating on the inseparability of self and circumstance and is a brilliant enactment of how, from such tensions, narrative emerges.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosa Chacel (1898-1994), one of the most promising pre-Civil War writers, was \"rediscovered\" in her native Spain after returning to Madrid from an exile of more than three decades. In addition to \u003ci\u003eLa sinrazón\u003c\/i\u003e, her many works include \u003ci\u003eTeresa\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMemorias de Leticia Valle\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBarrio de Maravillas\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Maravillas District\u003c\/i\u003e, Nebraska 1992). Carol Maier also translated Chacel's \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of Leticia Valle\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska 1994), for which she won the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a translation of a literary work, and the Eugene Kayden Translation Competition's Meritorious Achievement Award.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328432247058,"sku":"9780803263642","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cd3c291c-f56d-4b83-b5d2-dbe343f3326d.jpg?v=1727739719","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dream-of-reason-9780803263642","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}