Name: Enero (in Spanish)
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Author: Sara Gallardo
ISBN: 9789874178114

Type

Physical Book

Author

Sara Gallardo

Publisher

Fiordo

Year

2014

Language

Spanish

Pages

112

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9789874178114

Edited in

Argentina

Synopsis "Enero (in Spanish)"

Enero; la primera novela de Sara Gallardo; es una obra breve y poderosa. Nefer; su protagonista adolescente; vive y trabaja con sus padres y su hermana en el puesto de una estancia donde ordeña vacas en el tambo. Los días rutinarios del verano se suceden en aparente calma entre la peonada; pero en Nefer crece una angustia que es como una bola negra que la abruma: ha quedado embarazada luego de una violación. La novela registra magistralmente la imposibilidad de darle voz a esa angustia; y presenta el vínculo con el campo y con los animales como un conocimiento de otro orden capaz de funcionar como refugio ante esa falta de voz.La culpa; el miedo; el odio; y también la esperanza; son las emociones con las que este libro; de una potencia asombrosa; atrapa sin remedio al lector. Novela universal situada en el campo argentino; Enero es una demostración definitiva de la contemporaneidad y la hondura de la literatura de Sara Gallardo; una de las grandes autoras argentinas.

Sara Gallardo

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She was born in Buenos Aires in 1931. Granddaughter of the famous Argentine naturalist and minister Ángel Gallardo, great-granddaughter of Miguel Cané, and great-great-granddaughter of Bartolomé Mitre, the extensive library in her family home opened the doors to literature for her at an early age. January, her first novel, appeared in 1958 and received excellent critical reception. This was followed by Blue Pants (1963) and the extraordinary The Greyhounds, The Greyhounds (1968), which established her with the general public and with which she won the Municipal Prize. In addition to novels, she wrote children's literature and a book of stories (The Country of Smoke, 1977). She was also a contributor to the magazines Primera Plana and Confirmado, among others, as well as to the newspaper La Nación. Eisejuaz (1971) confirmed her as a voice without parallel, which also meant her relative marginality in the subsequent canonical narratives of Argentine literature, a circumstance that has been reversing over the last decade and a half thanks to the reissue of much of her work. In the late seventies, she left Argentina and began working as a correspondent in Europe. She died in Buenos Aires in 1988.

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