The Dissertation

The second book in R.M. Koster's highly acclaimed Tinieblas trilogy (following "The Prince"), "The Dissertation" is the story of--and a story by--Camilo Fuertes. To fulfill his Ph.D. requirement, Fuertes decides to write about his father, the martyred president of Tinieblas, a country in Latin Ameri [...]
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The second book in R.M. Koster's highly acclaimed Tinieblas trilogy (following "The Prince"), "The Dissertation" is the story of--and a story by--Camilo Fuertes. To fulfill his Ph.D. requirement, Fuertes decides to write about his father, the martyred president of Tinieblas, a country in Latin America. We follow Leon as he winds his twisted path through delinquency, learning, bravery, and incest to the presidency. At once a powerful vision of Latin American history and a brilliant parody of the academic form--complete with endnotes --"The Dissertation" is an essential postmodern novel in the tradition of Vonnegut, Barth and Nabokov, ready to be embraced by a new generation of readers.