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The Inquisitor's Tongue: A Novel by [Alan Singer]

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Alan Singer’s riveting new novel, The Inquisitor’s Tongue, reimagines the Spanish Inquisition as a world in which spiritual horrors and acts of violence are the birth pangs of otherwise unimaginable identities.

The novel is the intersection of two narratives. The confession of Osvaldo Alonzo de Zamora, a miraculously gifted converso wine taster, is read aloud by a duplicitous priest of the Inquisition as an admonitory lesson to a suspected sinner. The competing narrative is the story of that sinner, another guilt-driven character, referred to only as the “Samaritan,” who curiously is held in the thrall of Osvaldo’s confession. The Samaritan bears the scars of his own history of violence and hidden identity.

In the wake of a final apocalypse the two narratives converge, bringing all of the characters together and eliciting the most damning revelation about the identity of the Inquisitor. Set amidst the religious and courtly spectacles of sixteenth-century Spain, The Inquisitor’s Tongue is linguistically adventurous, richly philosophical, deeply visceral, tantalizingly sensuous, and wickedly comic. It is a Goyaesque capricho on the follies of the will to identity.

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“Beautifully erudite, ornate, and appalling, The Inquisitor’s Tongue’s doublehelixed narrative explores the intricate ligatures among brutality, art, artifice, taste, bliss, and the disease of consciousness called selfhood, proving once again that Alan Singer is the virtuoso of avant-decadence.”—Lance Olsen, author of Calendar of Regrets --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Alan Singer is the author of four previous novels, most recently Dirtmouth. He also writes on aesthetics and the visual arts; his most recent work is The Self-Deceiving Muse: Notice and Knowledge in the Work of Art. Singer is professor of English at Temple University.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0088QHXZI
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fiction Collective 2; First edition (March 7, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 7, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 930 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 271 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1573661678

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Alan Singer has written five novels, most recently The Inquisitor's Tongue from FC2. He also writes about aesthetics and the visual arts. He has published four volumes of criticism in these areas: A Metaphorics of Fiction, The Subject as Action, Aesthetic Reason, and The Self-Deceiving Muse. Alan Singer is also co-author, with Allen Dunn of Literary Aesthetics: A Reader. He is professor of English at Temple University.

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Kevin Moore

Singer continues to be the Meister Singer of a muscular metaphorics of language

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Alan Singer's latest is the culmination of a long line of novels in which the word rules..Dirtmouth etc. His prose is always fresh out of his mouth, original, and mustered to serve the author's interest in, even absorption by, language as the manipulator of our human life world. Though oftentimes disturbing in scenes, the thumping of the horses hooves anxious to draw and quarter the condemned, Singer's use of language as language is always startling and well worth the attention readers will need to commit to the Inquisitor's tale/tongue. Well done Meister Singer! and a must read for those interested in what a truly contemporary novel should read like.

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