A fragmented portrayal of woman's nature and fate in contemporary
Buenos Aires, composed of skillfully juxtaposed short narratives,
monologues, and dialogues (including telephone conversations, song
lyrics, and radio and TV soundbites - a kind of politically
grounded Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown). Borinsky
contrives some arresting sequences (such as the experience of a
teenage stripper who performs for gay males), but her flamboyant
vignettes featuring women who outwit their male oppressors and
abusers soon sag into redundancy. The book has its feisty charms,
but general readers should be forewarned that it operates out on
the farthest reaches of feminist postmodernism, and that anyone who
can't follow it there probably won't be able to follow it at all.
(Kirkus Reviews)
"Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer" takes place in the new "free
market" era of personal choices and relations: a chaotic, sometimes
hopeful, often comic world that has supplanted the old order of
political terror and clearly demarcated ideological divides. The
novel's vaudeville qualities, with characters shuffling on and off
the page in rapid succession, are complemented by its exhilarating
air of parody. "Dreams" draws ingeniously upon the sentimentality
and ephemera of popular culture--quoting radio and TV shows, song
lyrics, newspaper items, and bits of gossip-- while also offering a
sterner, more nuanced view of public and private relations. It is
in large measure this mix of elements--"popular" and "high"
culture, sentimentality and political understanding, vaudeville and
arch satire--that makes "Dreams" an exemplary postmodern novel.
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