Name: Intimate Disasters
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Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
ISBN: 9781891270543

Type

Physical Book

Author

Cristina Peri Rossi

Translated by

Robert S. Rudder

Ignacio Lopez-Calvo

Publisher

Latin American Literary Review Press

Language

English

Pages

110

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3 x 13.7 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9781891270543

Synopsis "Intimate Disasters"

In this modern age, when the means of communication have turned individual and collective history into a spectacle, literature is the privileged place of subjectivity. This book allows us to peer into the fascinating world of characters trapped in their particular deliriums: a club of fetishists who discuss their particular manias, a man in love with a whale woman, a man whose wife has left him for another woman, and a beautiful secretary who is also a mother feeling asphyxiated by her family. Readers, no matter how they see themselves and what their sexual preferences may be, will experience the same sensation.

Cristina Peri Rossi

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Cristina Peri Rossi was born in Montevideo (Uruguay) in 1941. She studied Music and Biology and graduated in Comparative Literature. She has collaborated with various media outlets and has done significant work as a translator. She published her first book of stories in 1963, and soon became one of the most notable writers of her generation. In 1972, she moved to Barcelona and acquired Spanish nationality. Her narrative work includes titles such as Los museos abandonados, La nave de los locos, Solitario de amor, Desastres íntimos (Lumen, 1997; 2022) and Habitaciones privadas. Lumen also published many of her poetry collections, among which stand out Diáspora, Babel bárbara (Ciudad de Barcelona Award), Otra vez Eros, Aquella noche, Las musas inquietantes and Estrategias del deseo. She has been distinguished, among others, with the following awards: Award Book for poetry (1992) and story (1994), Rafael Alberti International Poetry Award (2000), Loewe (2008), Mario Vargas Llosa NH for stories (2010), José Donoso (2019) and Cervantes Award (2021), the last two in recognition of her entire body of work.

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