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The Museum of Useless Efforts

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Availability:In StockContributor:Cristina Peri Rossi, Tobias Hecht (Translator)Series:European Women Writers (Paperback)Publish date:2001-04-01Pages:156
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803287648ISBN-10:080328764XUPC:9780803287648Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author)Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.36 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SCGBZ96RSZ
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803287648ISBN-10:080328764XUPC:9780803287648Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author)Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.36 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SCGBZ96RSZ
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.
Publisher: Bison Books

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