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From the Pulitzer Prizeâ??winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age."In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent had absconded from her life. I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, an artful dodger who had skipped out on so many thingsâ??obligation, affection, culpability, contrition. I was preparing an indictment, amassing discovery for a trial. But somewhere along the line, the prosecutor became a witness."So begins Susan Faludi's extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga. When the feminist writer learned her seventy-six-year-old fatherâ??long estranged and living in Hungaryâ??had undergone sex reassignment surgery, that investigation would turn personal and urgent. How was this new parent who identified as "a complete woman now" connected to the silent, explosive, and ultimately violent father she had known?Faludi chases that mystery into the recesses of her childhood and her father's many incarnations: American dad, Alpine mountaineer, swashbuckling adventurer in the Amazon outback, Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest. When the author travels to Hungary to reunite with her father, she drops into a labyrinth of dark histories and dangerous politics in a country hell-bent on repressing its past and constructing a fancifulâ??and virulentâ??nationhood. The search for identity that has transfixed our century was proving as treacherous for nations as for individuals.Faludi's struggle to come to grips with her father's metamorphosis self takes her across bordersâ??historical, political, religious, sexualâ??to bring her face to face with the question of the age: Is identity something you "choose," or a No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Luego emigró a Estados Unidos, donde se llamó Steven Faludi, conoció a la futura madre de Susan y trabajó para agencias de publicidad retocando las creaciones de grandes fotógrafos. Ya divorciado, se desentendió de su familia y volvió a HungrÃa: añorante de los tiempos imperiales, vota a los partidos de derecha y sueña con no haber sido judÃo nunca, un poco como Hans Christian Andersen, su escritor favorito. El reencuentro con su hija le obligará a mirar de frente el problema de su doble, triple o cuádruple personalidad.
En el cuarto oscuro es un libro potente y minucioso sobre la problemática de la identidad, por un lado la de sexo y género y por otro la nacional: en este caso, la de una HungrÃa que aún se debate entre la modernización y las poderosas fuerzas del resentimiento, que se niegan a olvidar las derrotas de hace cien años (el Tratado de Trianón) y siguen buscando culpables «foráneos» (los judÃos) de sus fracasos y frustraciones. Susan Faludi entrega una memoir novelada reflexiva y ambiciosÃsima; una obra de un calado excepcional.