Dislocations
$29.88
- Paperback
89 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2022
Summary
How do you keep a friendship intact, when Alzheimer’s has stolen the common ground of language, memory, and experience, that unites you?
In brief, sharply drawn moments, Sylvia Molloy’s Dislocations records the gradual loss of a beloved friend, M.L., a disappearance in ways expected (forgotten names, forgotten moments) and painfully surprising (the reversion to a formal, proper Spanish from their previous shared vernacular). There are occasions of wonder, too-M.L. can no longer find t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913867355 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1913867358 |
| Author: | Sylvia Molloy, Jennifer Croft |
| Publisher: | Charco Press |
| Imprint: | Charco Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 89 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 152g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 135mm x 249mm |
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Critics Review
“Argentine novelist and critic Molloy examines the nature and significance of memory in her gleaming English-language fiction debut… . A graceful study of memory, identity, and relationships, this is one to cherish.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“A masterclass in writing, with a brevity and clarity which is both rare and welcome, and firmly situates Molloy as an outstanding talent.” —The Skinny
Sylvia Molloy
Sylvia Molloy (Buenos Aires, 1938-2022) was a novelist, essayist, and a leading literary critic of Latin American literature. She was Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities Emerita at New York University, where she taught Latin American and comparative literatures. In 2007, at New York University, she created the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish, which was the first program of its kind in the United States.
She was the author of two novels: En común olvido (Shared Oblivion, 2002) and En breve cárcel (Soon Jail, 1981), and had written several books of short prose including: Varia imaginación (Varied Imagination, 2003), Citas de lectura (Reading Dates, 2017), Vivir entre lenguas (Living Between Languages, 2016), and Dislocations, originally entitled Desarticulaciones (2010). Her critical work includes At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America (1991), and Hispanisms and Homosexualities (1998). She was a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Dislocations is her first book of fiction to appear in English.
Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey, the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick, and the 2018 International Booker Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a PhD from Northwestern University and is a Presidential Professor at the University of Tulsa.
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