The Carnivorous Lamb

by Agustín Gómez Arcos

Book Overview

The latest in the Little Sister's Classics series resurrecting gay and lesbian literary gems: a viciously funny, shocking yet ultimately moving 1975 novel, an allegory of Franco's Spain, about a young... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452258200
• ISBN13: 9780452258204
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.

Customer Reviews

a perfect book

Its been a while since reading a book that was so profoundly satisfying and well-finished. It is a beautiful book celebrating an exuberant, deep love. It sells the book short to call it simply homo-erotic, just because the main protaganist is a man who loves his brother. The book deals with love and its devastating mutations in a protective confined stultyfying Spanish home in the Franco years. The metaphors for the "chronically dead" fascist regime are so graphic that you find yourself gasping for air...and the characters, as portrayed by Ignacio, the younger brother, are gruesomely real as he tells his story with wit and skill that have you smiling hard as you read. Very sexy too, even for a hetero woman.

Love, freedom and politics: loaded book!

Augustin Gomez Arcos makes several political statements on the appearance of a love story. At first, everything looks wrong: incestuous love, uncaring parents... Then the colors appear: red - yellow - red...Yellow is the color of the church and the military 'dictatura'Red is the one for Revolution, with defeated freedom dreams. Augustin plays his colors with a very fine hand. Self-exhiled from Spain, he writes in French as a first statement against Franco. The love story will move you, but still the surface of it may repel the puritan in you. And those two colours will haunt you until you finish this book... But you have to restrain yourself... if you still want some for tomorrow... My only complain is the translation: the original text is so beautiful and yet it's been translated into slang... Hum, if you understand two words of french, that would be a good twisted training book- and it's not 'out of print' over there!

magic realism?

The Carnivorous Lamb unfolds itself like a particularly lovely, intricate, and satisfying dream. Things that at first appear to be matter-of-fact reveal themselves to be larger metaphors for politics, philosophy, social atmospheres, and religion, in prose both decadent and surreal. At heart this is a love story: love between brothers, literally and figuratively.One of my favorites. :)

Pure, captivating emotion held weakly in a husk of words.

I am so sorry this book had to end, but from it, one can learn so much about one's self. Through the watchful eye of society and ubiquitous religion, comes harsh criticism and the definition of "right" and "wrong". From this, most are cheated the opportunity to live. Only the purest form of "love" (however that may be defined) uninhibited, with no boundaries or explanation can overcome such criminality. We all want to be loved freely as this...Where are you today Gomez-Arcos?

A true lesson about Freedom

This book is about love, but not in the conventional sense of the term... It is about the freedom to love, without boundaries, without judgement... Reader, do not open this book if you are ready to judge. But if you learn its lesson, you will hear the truth that will make you feel alive: that Love only starts beyond any boundaries. An undiscovered masterpiece.