The Ship of Fools
Title | The Ship of Fools PDF eBook |
Author | Cristina Peri Rossi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1989 |
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Panic Signs
Title | Panic Signs PDF eBook |
Author | Cristina Peri Rossi |
Publisher | Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Pages | 127 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0889209499 |
Cristina Peri Rossi is one of the most acclaimed and personal voices in Hispanic letters. This volume of short stories, Panic Signs, first published in 1970 in Montevideo, Uruguay, presages the atrocities that would come with dictatorship in 1972. The premonitory dimension is one of the striking characteristics in all the stories — a sense of impending catastrophe, sometimes hallucinatory and often graphic, leads us to undetermined places where the horrors of censorship, torture, and human bondage take place. At the same time, the stories expose the shackles that incapacitate us and deny us the acceptance of ourselves. This elegy for freedom mourns the loss of liberty and justice while seducing us into questioning what we hold true. The metaphorical procession of images, and the craftsmanship of a narrative that continually engage us, motivate us to explore our own uncertainties and values, and offer an unquestionable opportunity to reassess today’s global conditions. Peri Rossi succeeds in creating a whirlwind of despair and self-discovery, impelling us to assess our own panic signs and so avoid being entrapped by those who hold power over us. The translation of this powerful text will help English-speaking readers attain a more profound understanding of the complexities of Latin America’s cultural and socio-political issues.
The Museum of Useless Efforts
Title | The Museum of Useless Efforts PDF eBook |
Author | Cristina Peri Rossi |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780803287648 |
In The Museum of Useless Efforts Cristina Peri Rossi renders familiar, everyday situations uncanny through lyrical reinterpretations; at the same time, she somehow makes the uncanny appear quite ordinary. Crafting peculiar?and sometimes claustrophobically small?worlds, Peri Rossi explores the universal themes of desire, violence, and truth and the simultaneous and contradictory human capacities to repress and resist, speak and silence, desire and ignore. In these tales an insomniac is tormented by a stubborn lamb that refuses to jump over the fence; the momentary hesitation of a man on a crowded subway staircase who forgets whether he was going up or down unleashes pandemonium; and a patient receives a frantic call from his psychoanalyst, distraught that his wife has taken a new lover.
State of Exile
Title | State of Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Cristina Peri Rossi |
Publisher | City Lights Pocket Poets |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2008-03-15 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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A tender, moving, and multi-layered portrait of the pain, loneliness and permanent nostalgia of exile.
Solitaire of Love
Title | Solitaire of Love PDF eBook |
Author | Cristina Peri Rossi |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780822325406 |
Experimental, erotic novel by a renowned Latin American fiction writer and political activist.
Intimate Disasters
Title | Intimate Disasters PDF eBook |
Author | Cristina Peri Rossi |
Publisher | Latin Amer Literary Review Press |
Pages | 110 |
Release | 2015-03-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781891270543 |
In this modern age, when the means of communication have turned individual and collective history into a spectacle, literature is the privileged space of subjectivity. This book allows us to peer into the fascinating inner world of characters trapped in their particular deliriums: a club of fetishists who discuss their sexual 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.
English Translation of Selected Short Stories of Cristina Peri Rossi
Title | English Translation of Selected Short Stories of Cristina Peri Rossi PDF eBook |
Author | Cristina Peri Rossi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 1991 |
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