Last Night of Carnival, a
collection of stories by turns erotic, surreal, and provocative, comprises an
exile æsthetic, where the speaker is not only an exile from his homeland, but
also from the stale middleclass values of his parents, and from dead pieties
of previous generations that have become ossified and codified in the culture.
You will find in the pages of Last
Night of Carnival a collection of characters you will not soon forget:
the professional mourner, who weeps for those who die without family or
friends to grieve for them, the man from subterranean culture that hoards
jewels dropped from above while hiding from rats below, the list could go on
and on.