The Funhouse

The Funhouse

  • Author: Alegría, Fernando
  • Publisher: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9780934770521
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781518501715
  • Place of publication:  Houston , United States
  • Year of publication: 2017
  • Pages: 152

The Funhouse is a surrealistic vision of American society and politics during the era of the Vietnam War. The protagonist, recently emigrated from Latin-America to the United States, experiences the Vietnam-tainted culture through the warped lens of an amusement park funhouse. Relationships are subjected to the Chamber of Horrors which perverts love, sex and family into random acts of corruption, violence and inhumanity. All who seek love and companionship must pass through the Hall of Mirrors which reveals the truth about the often distorted and obscured self-image.

Alegría captures the spirit and ideology of the sixties and reignites its guiding light of salvation: uncompromising, all-embracing love.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • The Hunt
  • The House
  • Rosamel and the Clockman
  • The House Again, Now Full of Hippies
  • Agent O
  • The Electric Chair
  • The Perfect Crime
  • Spontaneous Generation
  • Time Payment
  • The Mysterious Photo
  • The City Plan
  • Dancing and the First Fire
  • The Saint of the Library
  • Summar Solstice
  • State of Siege
  • Funeral Pomp
  • The Lovers
  • String Orchestra
  • Head on a Plate
  • The Greases Pole
  • Where There's Life There's Hope
  • Saint John the Baptist
  • The Hanged Man
  • The Fall of a Bishop
  • The Bullfight
  • The Constitutionalists
  • The Autopsy
  • Home for the Holidays
  • The Airmail Package
  • Changing Times
  • The Missionary
  • Sacred History
  • Love, Mute Style
  • Law and Order
  • Mirage
  • Siamese Twins
  • The Canary's Crime
  • The Clues
  • Purgatory
  • Spirit of Evil
  • External Return
  • I Am an Optimist
  • Driving the Message Home

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