Rasero (Pegasus Prize for Literature) - Tapa dura

"Translation of Rasero (1993) received the Pegasus Prize for Literature. Set in 18th-century Europe, Rebolledo's ambitious first novel tells of a young Spaniard in search of wisdom who travels to Paris and experiences the Enlightenment, with all its contradictions"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Explores the politics, desires, philosophy, and science of eighteenth century Paris through the life and sexually triggered prophecies of Fausto Rasero, a young Spanish nobleman who comes to know every important figure of his time