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Article: Sergio Kokis. Kaleidoscope brise.(Book Review)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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Montreal. XYZ. 2001. 344 pages. Can$24.95. ISBN 2-89261-317-5
KALIEDOSCOPE BRISE, although it can be read separately, is the second volume of a trilogy begun in 2000 with the publication of Saltimbanques. It presents the adventures, dreams, and illusions of the entertainers of the Circus Alberti.
Lured by the American Dream, they have left post-World War II Europe for the new continent, but because of the skewed optic given by the "broken kaleidoscope," they land in Latin America, where conditions are hard as they try to adapt to financial and political exigencies. To convey further the notion of a "broken kaleidoscope," Kokis has rejected both a linear ...