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Skin (Hardcover)
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Skin (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R482
Discovery Miles 4 820
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Skin is the border of our body and, as such, it is that through
which we relate to others but also what separates us from them.
Through skin, we speak: when we display it, when we tan it, when we
tattoo it, or when we mute it by covering it with clothes. Skin
exhibits social relationships, displays power and the effects of
power, explains many things about who we are, how others perceive
us and how we exist in the world. And when it gets sick, it turns
us into monsters. In Skin, Sergio del Molino speaks of these
monsters in history and literature, whose lives have been tormented
by bad skin: Stalin secretly taking a bath in his dacha, Pablo
Escobar getting up late and shutting himself in the shower, Cyndi
Lauper performing a commercial for a medicine promising relief from
skin disease, John Updike sunburned in the Caribbean, Nabokov
writing to his wife from exile, 'Everything would be fine, if it
weren't for the damned skin.' As a psoriasis sufferer, Sergio del
Molino includes himself in this gallery of monsters through whose
stories he delves into the mysteries of skin. What is for some a
badge of pride and for others a source of anguish and shame, skin
speaks of us and for us when we don't speak with words.
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