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Alicia Borinsky - Golpes Bajos/Low Blows, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

Golpes Bajos/Low Blows

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Av Alicia Borinsky

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In these short, bilingual stories set in Buenos Aires (with each piece appearing in Spanish and English on facing pages), Alicia Borinsky provides unique glimpses into the lives of the city's inhabitants: its businessmen and tango dancers, politicians and torturers, triumphant divas and discarded children - a gallery of characters from a broad spectrum of contemporary Argentine society. She portrays a world of violence, corruption, love, and betrayal. The brevity of the pieces suggests a breathlessness and ephemeral quality, the fast-paced rhythm of the present. Yet within these small moments flicker the larger forces that shape ordinary lives. Civil wars are fought, shady deals are made, unwanted children are born. And in Borinsky's ironic but life-affirming prose, human foibles are exposed.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2007-03-03
  • Mått: 160 x 231 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 420 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Americas
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Förlag: University of Wisconsin Press
  • Medarbetare: Michael Wood
  • ISBN: 9780299216009
  • Översättare: Cola Franzen
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Alicia Borinsky is a novelist, poet, and literary critic. Born in Buenos Aires, she is now professor of Latin American and comparative literature and director of the Writing in the Americas Program at Boston University. In 1996 she received the Latino Literature Award for her novel Suenos del seductor abandonado (translated into English in 1998 as Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer). Her other fiction includes Mina Cruel (1989, translated into English in 1993 as Mean Woman), and Cine continuado (1997, translated into English in 2002 as All Night Movie). Translator Cola Franzen, with whom Borinsky collaborated on this translation, has won various awards for her work, most recently the 2004 PEN Literary Award and the Gregory Kolovakos Award. She has translated several of Borinsky's works.

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Golpes bajos / Low Blows is a book of surprises, full of turns of language and imagination that constantly catch us off guard. - Michael Wood, from the foreword ""No one working today writes like Alicia Borinsky, whose words explode off the page. The voices in her work arise organically, and their accents and articulations, textures and quirks, are integral, authentic."" - Marguerite Feitlowitz, author of A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture

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