Download or read book René's Flesh written by Virgilio Piñera and published by Eridanos Library. This book was released on 1995 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally available in paperback, one of the neglected masterpieces of Latin American literature -- an obsessive, yet lucid, exploration of the human body as a nexus of power and pleasure. Twenty-year-old Rene is sent to be groomed at a boarding schoolwhose motto is: "Suffer in silence". It is there that his education in"the service of pain" begins.