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Symmetries

Symmetries( )
Author: Valenzuela, Luisa
Translator: Costa, Margaret Jull
Series title:High Risk Bks.
ISBN:978-1-85242-543-2
Publication Date:Jul 1998
Publisher:Serpent's Tail Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $18.00
Book Description:

A collection of stories that brilliantly capture the absurdity of life. Valenzuela?s view of life captures our imagination because we know how far it is from reality - cops in Buenos Aires are not afraid of dogs, latin lovers in caf?s do make moves in the game of courtship, and the hotels in Venice overlook canals. In the tradition of Calvino and Borges, the stories of Symmetries are also subtle parables on the art of fiction - they engage both our heads and our hearts.

Book Details
Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.914 x 7.644 x 0.741 Inches
Book Weight:0.295 Pounds
Author Biography
Valenzuela, Luisa (Author)
Luisa Valenzuela is one of the many women who have emerged as major voices in Latin American fiction. Her elliptic metaphoric pieces broaden the definitions of short story and novel. Strange Things Happen Here (1977) is close to an allegory of the Argentine political situation, but it shuns conventional realism to blur reality in a hallucinatory style. Julio Cortazar said of Valenzuela that she lucidly charts "the seldom-chosen course of a woman deeply anchored in her condition, conscious of discriminations that are still horrible all over our continent, but, at the same time, filled with joy in life that permits her to surmount both the elementary stages of protest and an overestimation of women in order to put herself on a perfectly equal footing with any literature---masculine or not." 020



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