Book Discussion: Álvaro Enrigue’s Muerte Súbita (Sudden Death)
St. John's College, The Mitchell Art Museum 60 College Ave, Annapolis, MD, United StatesMuerte Súbita (Sudden Death) begins oddly enough: two murderers—the Italian painter Michaelangelo Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Queveda—play tennis with four balls made of the red "incendiary" braids of a beheaded Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII. Watching from the sidelines are Galileo, Mary Magdalene, and several popes. Puzzlingly complex, absurd, and […]