Descripción
«Anyone who reads this precious book, I assure you, will fall in love with both. --Margarita García Robayo As I read, I have the sensation I get from the literature I enjoy the most. It's like looking through a window and suddenly noticing my own reflection in the glass, like a ghost. This book shows us an Elena Garro only her closest friends knew. An Elena who is human and, therefore, multifaceted and fallible. For this masterful portrait, Jazmina Barrera mines Garro's personal writings rigorously and with a sense of humor, combining insights from excerpts of her works, diaries, letters and interviews with quotes from documentaries, the Elena Garro Papers in the Princeton University archives, and even tarot, I Ching and astrology readings. Queen of Spades showcases Garro's unique way of inhabiting the world and the insights she contributed to it via her many obsessions: time, catastrophe, cats, peasant struggles, stagecraft and travel. Readers will find no judgments or certainties here, only a chameleon-like personality that sees the world through an intense, feminist and intelligent lens and evolves according to its findings. Thanks to Jazmina Barrera's keen observations, nourished by her infinite curiosity and prodigious memory, we are treated to a series of freeze frames of one of the great authors of the twentieth century, by a writer well on her way to joining those ranks.
Author: Jazmina Barrera
Publisher: Lumen Press
Published: 10/22/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9788426430779
ISBN10: 8426430775
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Hispanic & Latino
About the Author
Jazmina Barrera (Mexico City, 1988) was a fellow of the Foundation for Mexican Letters and a beneficiary of the Casa Estudio Cien Años de Soledad residencies. She was a fellow of the Fonca Young Creators program and is a member of the National System of Art Creators. She earned her Master's in Creative Writing in Spanish at NYU with the support of a Fullbright scholarship. She is the author of Cuerpo extraño, Cuaderno de faros, Linea nigra, Los nombres de los animales and Punto de Cruz. Her first essay collection won the Latin American Voices 2013 award. Linea nigra was a finalist for the CANIEM Book of the Year award, the Primera Novela award, the National Book Critics Circle's Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Autobiography Prize. Cuaderno de faros was part of the longlist for the Von Rezzori award. Her works have been published in nine countries and translated into English, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, and French. She is a founding partner of Ediciones Antílope. She lives in Mexico City.