Name: The Museum of Useless Efforts (European Women Writers)
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Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
ISBN: 9780803287648

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The Museum of Useless Efforts (European Women Writers)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Cristina Peri Rossi

Translated by

Tobias Hecht

Publisher

Bison

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

156

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.9 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN

080328764x

ISBN13

9780803287648

Synopsis "The Museum of Useless Efforts (European Women Writers) "

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. Uruguayan-born Cristina Peri Rossi has lived in exile in Spain since 1972. A novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer, she has written twenty books, including Solitaire of Love and The Ship of Fools. Tobias Hecht is the author of At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil.

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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