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Tender (Paperback)
Ariana Harwicz; Translated by Carolina Orloff, Annie McDermott
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The third and final installment of Ariana Harwicz's "Involuntary
Trilogy" finds us on familiar, disquieting ground. Under the spell
of a mother's madness, the French countryside transforms into a
dreamscape of interconnected imagery: animals, desire, the
functions of the body. Most troublingly: the comfort of a teenage
son. Scorning the bourgeois mores and conventionality of their
small town, she withdraws him from school and the two embark on
ever more antisocial and dangerous behavior. Harwicz is at her best
here, building an interior world so robust, and so grotesque, that
it eclipses our shared reality. Savage, and savagely funny, she
leaves us singed, if not scorched.
The Central and South American collection at the British Museum
collections contains approximately 62,000 objects, spanning 10,000
years of human history. The vast majority cannot be displayed, and
those objects are the subject of Untold Microcosms, a collection of
ten stories from ten Latin American writers, and inspired by the
narratives about our past that we create through museums, in spite
of their gaps and disarticulations.Featuring new original works by:
Yasnaya Elena Aguilar, Cristina Rivera Garza, Joseph Zarate, Juan
Cardenas, Velia Vidal, Lina Meruane, Gabriela Cabezon Camara,
Dolores Reyes, Carlos Fonseca, Djamila Ribeiro.
OrIoff shows that Cortazar did not become a political writer as a
result of the Cuban Revolution, as is often claimed, but rather
that the representation of the political was present in Cortazar's
very first writings. The book analyses the evolution of the
representation of distinct political elements throughout Cortazar's
writings, mainly with reference to the novels and the so-called
collage books, which have so far received only limited critical
attention. The author also alludes to some short stories and refers
to many of Cortazar's non-literary texts. Through this chosen
corpus, the book follows a thematic thread, showing that politics
was present in Cortazar's fiction from his very first writings, and
not - as he himself tended to claim - only following his conversion
to socialism. The study aims to show that contrary to what many
critics have argued, this political conversion did not divide the
writer into an irreconcilable before and after - the apolitical
versus the political - but rather it simply shifted the emphasis of
the representation of the political that already existed in
Cortazar's writings. Carolina Orloff is an independent scholar
working on research projects in the UK and in Argentina.
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Fate (Paperback)
Jorge Consiglio; Translated by Carolina Orloff, Fionn Petch
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This novel focuses on a group of characters who are all in
different ways endeavouring to take control of their fate. Their
desire to lead a genuine existence forces them to confront
difficult decisions, and to break out of comfortable routines.Karl
and Marina have been together for ten years and have a young son,
Simon. Karl is a German-born oboist at Argentina's national
orchestra, and Marina is a meteorologist. On a field trip, she
meets fellow researcher Zarate, and what might have been just a
fling starts to erode the foundations of her marriage. Then there
is Amer, a dynamic and successful taxidermist. At a group therapy
session for smokers, Amer falls for the younger Clara. While the
relationship between Karl and Marina disintegrates, the love story
between Amer and Clara is just beginning - or is it already at an
end? One of Argentina's leading contemporary writers, Jorge
Consiglio portrays the inner worlds of these characters through the
minute details of their everyday lives, laying bare their strivings
and their frustrations with a wry gaze, and seeking in this
close-up texture a deeper truth.
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Die My Love (Paperback)
Ariana Harwicz; Translated by Carolina Orloff, Sarah Moses
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R367
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Man Booker International Prize 2018 (Longlisted) In a forgotten
patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons:
embracing exclusion yet wanting to belong, craving freedom whilst
feeling trapped, yearning for family life but wanting to burn the
entire house down. Given surprising leeway by her family for her
increasingly erratic behaviour, she nevertheless feels ever more
stifled and repressed. Motherhood, womanhood, the banality of love,
the terrors of desire, the brutality of 'another person carrying
your heart forever': Die, My Love faces all this with a raw
intensity. It's not a question of if a breaking point will be
reached, but rather when, and how violent a form will it take? It's
impossible to come out unscathed from reading Ariana Harwicz. The
language of Die, My Love cuts like a scalpel even as it attains a
kind of cinematic splendour, evoking the likes of John Cassavetes,
David Lynch and John Ford. In a text that explores the
destabilising effects of passion and its absence, immersed in the
psyche of a female protagonist always on the verge of madness (in
the tradition of Sylvia Plath and Clarice Lispector), Harwicz
moulds language, submitting it to her will in irreverent prose.
Bruising and confrontational, yet anchored in an unapologetic
beauty and lyricism, Die, My Love is a unique reading experience
that quickly becomes addictive.
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Feebleminded (Paperback)
Ariana Harwicz; Translated by Carolina Orloff, Annie McDermott
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Following the international success of Die, My Love (longlisted for
the Man Booker International Prize 2018), Ariana Harwicz again
takes us into the darkest recesses of the imagination with this
delirious, furious account of a mother and daughter bound by chaos
as much as love. Driven to the edge by the men in their lives, they
oscillate between erratic bursts of housework, lazing in the
garden, and drunken escapades. But is the constant undercurrent of
violence all in the daughter's mind or will they actually go
through with their plan for revenge? With a shocking,
edge-of-the-seat finale worthy of Thelma & Louise if it were
remade by David Lynch, Feebleminded is a wild ride of a novel with
echoes of Agota Kristof, Elfriede Jelinek and Alan Warner, and will
leave you both shaken and begging for more.
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