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Title: Perez-Reverte presents an angst-ridden cast of characters
Review: The engaging plot mechanism of 'The Seville Communion' is only its prima facie appeal. The real fascination for me was that the principal characters each in a distinctive way live the anxiety of post-modernity in its inherent absurdity as well as its incompatibility with the spontaneous and perennial orientation of man towards meaning. To make the same point another way, the characters each live in two worlds and two ways, mutually incompatible: the traditional and the post-Kantian. This profound unease has evoked a different response from each person, leaves none of them happy, and allows the author to figure forth the philosophical roots of the contemporary life of man in himself and in society. I found this book to be a highly provocative reading experience.
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