La Comemadre
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Comemadre
In the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1907, a doctor becomes involved in a misguided experiment that investigates the threshold between life and death. One hundred years later, a celebrated artist goes to extremes in search of aesthetic transformation, turning himself into an art object. How far are we willing to go, Larraquy asks, in pursuit of transcendence? The world of Comemadre is full of vulgarity, excess, and discomfort: strange ants that form almost perfect circles, missing body parts, obsessive love affairs, and man-eating plants. Darkly funny, smart, and engrossing, here the monstrous is not alien, but the consquence of our relentless pursuit of collective and personal progress.
La comemadre
1907. Un sanatorio en la periferia de Buenos Aires. Un joven doctor se embarca junto a sus colegas en una serie de experimentos que pretenden arañar el velo que separa la vida de la muerte. En el proceso, descubre la pasión en la persona de la jefa de enfermeras. Algo más de un siglo más tarde, en 2009, un artista consagrado en busca del tránsito estético definitivo desgrana las circunstancias que lo condujeron hasta aquí. En su órbita, dos figuras problemáticas: el doble y el primer amor. Traducida a siete lenguas y finalista del National Book Award en el año de su aparición en Estados Unidos, la primera novela de Roque Larraquy lo ha aupado a un lugar privilegiado de la narrativa latinoamericana contemporánea que sus siguientes obras no han hecho sino confirmar. Tan cruel como deliciosa, La comemadre es una obra inclasificable, ambigua y memorable. En palabras del autor: «Ciencia y arte, de las que hay muy poco en la novela, son pretextos para preguntarme de qué modo el presente reescribe el pasado, de qué modo el pasado sobrevive en el presente».
A History of Argentine Literature
Author: Alejandra Laera
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2024-05-16
Argentine Literature continues to figure prominently in academic programs in the English-speaking world, and it has an increasing presence in English translation in international prizes and trade journals. A History of Argentine Literature proposes a major reimagining of Argentine literature attentive to production in indigenous and migration languages and to current debates in Literary Studies. Panoramic in scope and incisive in its in-depth studies of authors, works, and theoretical problems, this volume builds on available scholarship on canonical works but opens up the field to include a more diverse rendering as well as engaging with the full spectrum of textual interventions from travel writing to drama, from popular 'gauchesca' to celebrated avant guard works Working at the crossroads of disciplines, languages and critical traditions, this book accounts for the wealth of Argentine cultural production and maps the rich, diverse and often overlooked history of Argentine literature.