Resumen de The Spoken Animal: Politics, Language and History in Carlos Liscano's Truck of Fools. A Review of Carlos Liscano's Truck of Fools (Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2004)

Patrick Dove

• Liscano is a professional writer who, in addition to his work as a journalist, has published novels, short stories, poems and a dramatic monologue. His testimonio is thus somewhat atypical in that it is written by the author alone, and reflects an erudite—albeit also politically Left—perspective.