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A Manual for Manuel (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)

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Andrés Fava (ahn-DREHS FAH-vah), the main narrator, an Argentine intellectual living in Paris. He is connected to the members, though not much to the activities, of a principally Latin American activist group, the Screwery, that operates there. Andrés tenaciously clings to his world of ideas and aesthetics, erotic freedom, and phonograph records but also harbors an underlying urge to be a man of action. This urge is expressed in a dream he has had, in which an unknown Cuban gives him a message. Andrés cannot remember the dream message until he makes a...

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