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Cargando... Homesick for Another World: Stories (2017 original; edición 2017)por Ottessa Moshfegh (Autor)
Información de la obraNostalgia de otro mundo por Ottessa Moshfegh (2017)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with these stories—in a good way. It's extremely visceral writing, at times a little too much so, that's also painstaking in its detail. And each narrator is so different from the last. How does she do that so well? Overall just a great reading experience that makes me want to read more. ( ) Compared to Flannery O’Connor, but they seem to me profoundly different. They both deal in what you could call the grotesque, but O’Connor’s stories offer their characters divine grace and redemption. Moshfegh’s offer nihilism. This is a collection for your favorite misanthrope, where the physicality of human flesh is disgusting, human behaviors similar, and that’s pretty much what there is. O’Connor’s writing is famously imbued with her Catholicism; Moshfegh can only be an atheist. It could make for unrelentingly grim reading, and sure that could be one’s takeaway, but the stories are wired with a dark energy and black humor and usually don’t fail to be interesting. 2.5 stars The weirdest book, this author has a big case of misanthropy. I can relate, that's why she gets an extra half star. But the characters she peoples her stories with--good grief. They are the most sickening, hateful people that are represented in the human species. For example, boys who let their pimples grow, so they can be clawed open, squeezed, allowed to scab over, and repeat the process. These characters actually have girlfriends. Or a woman who hires a pregnant 18-year-old to clean her vacation house. She sits on her couch while the near-term teenager lugs a water-filled bucket and mop up the stairs, and reads her magazine. She hears a loud thump on the floor above her, so she goes to the foot of the stairs and calls up to her: "everything alright?" Yes, answers the girl. When she comes downstairs to get more cleaning supplies, the woman sees that she is bleeding from her crotch, unbeknownst to the preggo, with her big belly blocking the way. The woman let's her finish the cleaning job, and takes out$20 to pay her, as the girl staggers out into her yard, with blood now running down her legs. Two women are in lounge chairs in the neighboring yard, and get up to help her, giving the woman a dirty look. Just a sampling of the weird-ass stuff you'll read in Moshfegh's stories. I've highlighted some of the strangest sections, so I can remember it. Enjoy. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Los premiados relatos de la autora de Mi año de descanso y relajación, ganadora del Premio PEN/ Hemingway entre otros: «Un cruce de los mejores cuentos que jamás escribirán Haruki Murakami y Lorrie Moore firmados por la mejor escritora norteamericana de su generación» --Rodrigo Fresán). «Las historias de Ottessa Moshfegh son como pequeñas joyas podridas, que brillan y traumatizan por igual, como solo puede hacerlo la mejor literatura. Moshfegh explora con macabro deleite todas las facetas oscuras y ridículas del ser humano, convenciéndonos con gran destreza de que son merecedoras de nuestra fascinación.» --Virginia Feito, autora de La señora March «Probar sus frases es como entrar en contacto con una alambrada ligeramente electrificada, [...] como ver a alguien sonreír con la boca llena de sangre». --Dwight Garner, The New York Times Hay algo siniestro y desconcertante que atraviesa los relatos de Ottessa Moshfegh, algo peligroso, fascinante y a veces irresistiblemente divertido. Sus personajes son seres inestables: anhelan un gesto de ternura y desean, a su manera, convertirse en mejores personas; aun así, todos parecen moverse guiados por los impulsos más primarios. Débiles, retorcidos, a menudo estúpidos y crueles consigo mismos y con los demás: de esta extraña materia prima Moshfegh consigue extirpar una belleza oscura y eléctrica y que, en ella, lo que veamos sea en realidad nuestro propio reflejo. Nostalgia de otro mundo reúne sus mejores relatos, ganadores de los premios Pushcart, O. Henry o Plimpton Discovery Prize, con los que ha entrado a formar parte del universo literario de Flannery O'Connor o Angela Carter. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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