The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis (Plume Contemporary Fiction)

by Humberto Costantini

Book Overview

The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis is anchored in a single life amid the unimaginable terrors of Argentina in 1977. Mr. Costantini (who recently returned to Argentina after years of political exile... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452258898
• ISBN13: 9780452258891
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Plume
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

Argentina. Dirty War.What do you do hotshot? What DO you do?

Extremely psycho-political. Revealing in the analysis of the modern day hell of the human consciousness in the press of political repression. Initially I found the vacillations of the title character to be tedious and mentally grinding but that is the point of the novel - our innate humanism caught in the gears of the unseen oppressor machine reducing us to a moral and physical stupor. This novel presents the sociology of the Argentinian "Dirty War" and one man's reaction to a call to conscience brilliantly. I also felt that the theme of a repression in search of victims was very powerful. Why it is out of print I don't know.