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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I keep going back and forth between 3 and 4 stars, but I’m going to leave it at 4. The way Machado tells her story is unlike any other memoir I’ve read. She manages to craft a linear narrative in a very non-linear way, and I found her writing to be completely engrossing. ( ) Machado's memoir is a compelling and imaginative telling of a partnership with an abusive lesbian lover. Grad students, they commute between Bloomington IN where the Dream House is and the narrator's school in Iowa City. As the gas lighting and verbal threats escalate, Machado frankly describes her victim stance and inability to extricate herself. Her studies would have been insupportable without good friends. "When you try to talk about the Dream House afterward, some people listen, others politely nod while slowly closing the door behind their eyes; you might as well be a proselytizing Jehovah's Witness or an encyclopedia peddler." She footnotes the short chapters with an index to Motifs in Folk Literature referencing the taboos surfacing in their dissension and sociological notes on queer domestic abuse. Her honesty and the poetry of her writing kept me rapt.
On its surface, the book recounts a psychologically abusive relationship that marked Machado's life in many ways. However, just below the surface, the narrative continually shapeshifts and at times becomes a play, an academic look at female queerness in mainstream media, a choose your own adventure book, and a sharp deconstruction of the mechanisms of psychological abuse. That said, the total is more than the sum of its parts and In the Dream House is the kind of book that burrows under the reader's skin while simultaneously forcing her to inhabit the body of the writer.... In the Dream House is an uncomfortable read. It is a narrative that is never what you think it is, a story about "a house that was not a house and a dream that was no dream at all." The nameless woman and the house merge together and become a dark reality as well as a haunting nightmare. “In the Dream House” is a page turner of psychological suspense. In short chapters that alternate between lucid scenes from her life and forays into fairy tales, legal histories, queer theory and cultural mainstays like “Star Trek” and “Gaslight,” Machado evokes how abusers entrap their targets with sustained attention, so rare among the distracted shards of modern romance, and therefore precious....As she wrote in her first book, “Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness.” Machado is not among them, nor are her readers. What could seem gimmicky — I confess I braced myself at first — quickly feels like the only natural way to tell the story of a couple. What relationship exists in purely one genre? What life? ... There is something anxious, and very intriguing, in the degree of experimentation in this memoir, in its elaborately titivated sentences, its thicket of citations. The flurry — the excess — feels deliberate, and summons up the image of the writer holding a ring of keys, trying each of them in turn to unlock a resistant story, to open a door she might be hesitant to enter.... At its conclusion, what does she leave us but a library in miniature — those long-invisible, long-suppressed stories now culled from every quarter of history, and explored in every conceivable genre — a living archive of her own loving, idiosyncratic design. While the non-linear structure might be frustrating at times, the book's depth of emotion, narrative experimentation, and insightful reflections combine for a truly unforgettable and beautiful work.... PremiosDistincionesListas Notables
"Cuando era una joven aspirante a escritora, Carmen Maria Machado conoci a una chica menuda, rubia, de clase alta, licenciada en Harvard, sofisticada y fascinante con la que inici su primera relacin lsbica, despus de varias experiencias sexuales con hombres. La chica posea una idlica cabaa en Bloomington, Virginia: la casa de los sueos del ttulo. Pero los sueos se convirtieron en pesadillas cuando la novia de Machado empez a mostrarse celosa, controladora y paranoica, para luego acusarla de engaarla con todo el mundo y acabar agredindola verbal e incluso fsicamente. Este libro es el testimonio de una relacin txica, que en este caso no tiene como agresor a un varn heterosexual de mentalidad patriarcal y machista, sino a una lesbiana. Y este es un primer elemento que da valor al texto: la denuncia de la violencia en la pareja dentro de la comunidad queer. Pero la calidad excepcional de la propuesta de Machado va ms all: en lugar de quedarse en un mero ejercicio de testimonio personal, utiliza la historia vivida -y sufrida- para explorar ms a fondo el tema, jugando literariamente con l. Y lo hace mediante la manipulacin de los gneros narrativos -la novela romntica, la ertica, la de iniciacin, la de terror...-, lo cual le permite contar su historia y reflexionar a la vez sobre cmo contamos todos las nuestras. El resultado: una nueva muestra del talento inmenso y transgresor de Carmen Maria Machado, una de las voces femeninas ms radicales y lcidas del panorama literario contemporneo, capaz de combinar la exploracin formal con una transparencia absoluta en el relato de la experiencia vivida y la sexualidad. El libro es una pirueta literaria brillantsima y seductora, as como un testimonio de una sinceridad arrolladora sobre los abusos emocionales y fsicos."--Cover, page 4. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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