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Carregando... The Body Where I Was Born (2011)de Guadalupe Nettel
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I found this an interesting read. It's not clear how much is truth and how much is fiction, but it's a stroll through a most unusual, and yet familiar at the same time, childhood. ( ) As I read I felt I was listening to an extremely intelligent person tell her story, a person who has the perception, and the bravery, to remember her childhood as the chaotic and helpless time it was. Political upheaval in Mexico and throughout South America during Nettel's childhood comes slantingly through this autobiographical novel, told the way a child would perceive it. I feel made aware of events like the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre in a very different way from what I'd learn from reading non-fiction, or from reading fiction written from an adult point of view. There is a lot to experience in this slim book. I enjoyed the company of Guadalupe Nettel as I read it. I like the sort of meandering quality of memoirs but usually don't like the self indulgence of them. In this case I enjoyed being carried around, at first thinking the story was building to something, then realizing I was just on a raft floating along a stream. Provides some sociological snapshots of Mexico City and France in the late 70s/early 80s. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood--in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self--a fierce and discerning girl open to life's pleasures and keen to its ruthless cycle of tragedy. With raw language and a brilliant sense of humor, both delicate and unafraid, Nettel strings together hard-won, unwieldy memories--taking us from Mexico City to Aix-en-Provence, France, then back home again--to create a portrait of the artist as a young girl. In these pages, Nettel's art of storytelling transforms experience into inspiration and a new startling perception of reality. "Nettel's eye...gives rise to a tension, subtle but persistent, that immerses us in an uncomfortable reality, disquieting, even disturbing--a gaze that illuminates her prose like an alien sun shining down on our world." --Valeria Luiselli, author of Sidewalks and Faces in the Crowd "It has been a long time since I've found in the literature of my generation a world as personal and untransferable as that of Guadalupe Nettel." --Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling "Nettel reveals the subliminal beauty within beings...and painstakingly examines the intimacies of her soul." --Magazine Litteraire "Guadalupe Nettel's storytelling power is majestic."--Typographical Era In Praise of Natural Histories "Five flawless stories..." --The New York Times "Nettel's stories are as atmospheric and emotionally battering as Checkhov's."--Asymptote"--
"From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood--in which she was born with a birth defect into a family intent on fixing it--having somehow survived the emotional havoc she went through. And survive she did, but not unscathed. This intimate narrative echoes the voice of the narrator's younger self: a sharp, sensitive girl who is keen to life's gifts and hardships. With bare language and smart humor, both delicate and unafraid, the narrator strings a strand of touching stories together in a portrait of an unconventional childhood that crushed her, scarred her, mended her, tore her apart and ultimately made her whole"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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