?Como mantener una amistad intacta cuando el Alzheimer se va llevando consigo las bases del lenguaje, la memoria y las experiencias compartidas?
La narradora visita casi diariamente a ML., con quien compartio una estrecha amistad y ahora padece mal de Alzheimer. A partir de esos encuentros y los fragmentos de memoria de ML. va construyendo un relato poderosamente conmovedor sobre la desarticulacion de una mente que progresivamente va borrando todo de una manera peculiar.Un intento, a traves de la escritura, de "hacer durar una relacion que continua pese a la ruina, que subsiste aunque apenas queden palabras". "?Como dice yo el que no recuerda...?", se pregunta la narradora frente a esa mujer que le muestra la casa como si la visitara por primera vez o que es incapaz de decir que ha sufrido un mareo, pero puede traducir al ingles perfectamente un mensaje donde se dice que ella ha sufrido un mareo.Pasajes de un pasado y un presente compartidos que se transforman en ficcion frente a un olvido que no puede contradecirlos. Un libro que opone al derrumbe una prosa precisa y vital y la sensibilidad unica de una de las mejores escritoras latinoamericanas.
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 the words to say she is dizzy, but can translate that message from Spanish to English, when it's passed along by a friend.
This loss holds Molloy's sense of herself too-the person she is in relation to M.L. fades as her friend's memory does. But the writer remains: 'I'm not writing to patch up holes and make people (or myself) think that there's nothing to see here, but rather to bear witness to unintelligibilities and breaches and silences. That is my continuity, that of the scribe.'
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 the words to say she is dizzy, but can translate that message from Spanish to English, when it's passed along by a friend.
This loss holds Molloy's sense of herself too-the person she is in relation to M.L. fades as her friend's memory does. But the writer remains: 'I'm not writing to patch up holes and make people (or myself) think that there's nothing to see here, but rather to bear witness to unintelligibilities and breaches and silences. That is my continuity, that of the scribe.'
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Gleaming . . . 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
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Höhe: 192 mm
Breite: 126 mm
Dicke: 10 mm
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978-1-913867-39-3 (9781913867393)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Silvia Molloy (Buenos Aires, 1938) es una novelista, ensayista y destacada critica literaria de literatura latinoamericana. Es profesora emerita de la catedra de Humanidades Albert Schweitzer en la Universidad de Nueva York, donde enseno Literaturas Comparadas y Literatura Latinoamericana. En 2007, tambien en la Universidad de Nueva York, creo la Maestria en Escritura Creativa en espanol, la primera en los Estados Unidos. Escribio dos novelas: En comun olvido (2002)__ y En breve carcel (1981); varios volumenes de relatos cortos, entre ellos Varia imaginacion (2003), Citas de lectura (2017), Vivir entre lenguas (2016) y este libro, Desarticulaciones (2010). Entre sus ensayos y publicaciones criticas se encuentran At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America (1991) e Hispanisms and Homosexualities (1998). Ha sido becaria de la Fundacion Guggenheim, del National Endowment for the Humanities, del Social Science Research Council, y de la fundacion Civitella Ranieri. Actualmente vive en Nueva York.
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 programme of its kind in the United States. She was the author of two novels: En comun olvido (Shared Oblivion, 2002) and En breve carcel (Soon Jail, 1981), and had written several books of short prose including: Varia imaginacion (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.
