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Cargando... Mona (2019)por Pola Oloixarac
   Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  Eavans | Nov 22, 2023 |   There's a lot going on in this this little book - flashbacks, trauma, literary awards, dinners, beach scenes, etc. - and up until chapter nine I think the book progresses extremely well. However, I think the pacing of the last two chapters did the book a disservice. While it definitely has its flaws (perhaps it's a literal lost-in-translation situation?), I really enjoyed Mona. Probably more of a 3.5, but rounding it up to four stars because I just like books about smart, fucked-up women doing drugs and losing their shit. Also this cover is everything. (  ) cbwalsh | Sep 13, 2023 | Most of the book seems to be commenting on world culture and writing and stuff and all of that mostly went over my head. Then you get to the end and realize the book wasn’t about that at all. Honestly I really liked the ending and the general vibe. The writing reminds me of that of the Secret History or something though I wouldn’t categorize this as dark academia, more as like “deranged academia.” ( ) willowzz | Jun 27, 2023 | ) BibliophageOnCoffee | Aug 12, 2022 | For anyone who loves books, book festivals and generally just getting a peak into the lives of our beloved authors, this is a joy. Shamelessly taking a swipe at political correctness and pretentious literary smugness, Pola Oloixarac's new novel arrives with a bang. And at its heart is Mona, a Peruvian writer now residing in California, who is one of the shortlisted writers. Mona generally doesn't give a f*** and has been told by her publisher that her second novel, which she is currently writing, isn't good enough. Mona is also usually high on something. Mona has relationship issues. As the writers and the festival attendees gather in a remote northern part of Sweden things get darker and more surreal. The locals have a habit of killing animals and leaving them lying around. Mona's fellow authors are a motley collection of preening egotists or ironic observers. Clichés are set up and knocked down, and there are some definite laugh out loud casual observations that are a joy. But there is a much darker edge to this novel; Mona is covered in bruises, and she keeps getting phone calls and messages from someone desperate to talk to her. As the truth is revealed, it suddenly shifts your whole impression of the sardonic Mona. And when the book ends in just the most bizarre manner (no spoilers) the book will leave you wondering what the heck you have just read. For some, this might be a little too smug, a little too cliched. But for others, this is a wonderful and unique book from one of the literary world's rising stars. A big shout out to the translation by Adam Morris, who has managed to capture the essence of the narrative style superbly. Overall, a funny yet darkly disturbing read, brilliantly done. 4.5 stars, but I could easily have made it 5. ( ) Alan.M | Mar 22, 2021 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Fiction.
Literature.
HTML: Novela de ideas y suspenso, un thriller literario donde la clave del crimen est escondida en el cuerpo de una escritora que compite por un premio. La prosa de Pola Oloixarac es el gran acontecimiento de la nueva narrativa argentina. "Vienen a estos lugares creyndose escritores y se van como personajes", piensa Mona Tarrile-Byrne, joven narradora peruana. En su espiral de drogas californianas y derivas erticas, Mona aterriza en un pueblito de Suecia junto con unos pocos colegas nominados al prestigioso premio literario Basske-Wortz. En ese lugar lmite -en la frontera del espacio habitable por la cultura, antes de la noche muerta del rtico-, descubre las marcas misteriosas de una violencia que no puede explicarse. Llegados de todo el mundo, los escritores se agradan y recelan, se miden y seducen. Entre las aventuras sexuales y mentales de la protagonista y los debates acerca de vanguardias, ideologas y mercado -de TED talks a orgasmos borgianos-, Pola Oloixarac retrata con alucinante acidez el crculo hpster de una weltliteratur imaginaria. La autora brilla en este thriller de ideas, una stira devastadoramente actual de la brutalidad latente en las lites culturales y una oscura meditacin sobre el poder de la lengua para transformar el mundo. La crtica ha dicho... Con cunta inteligencia y talento escribe Pola Oloixarac, y de qu manera nos desnuda. [Pola Oloixarac es] una exquisita antroploga de la barbarie contempornea. Astuta, amarga e inteligente, Mona es a la vez una comedia satrica, un horroroso retrato psicolgico de la disociacin de una mujer, y una acusacin filosfica de la arrogancia de hoy da. Lalo y sorprndase. Un delirante tour de force escrito por Pola Oloixarac -una de las pocas escritoras sin las que no puedo vivir- Mona es una novela que, una vez acabada, deja al lector deshecho de una forma perfecta y hermosa. Combinando misterio, una parodia del mundo literario y un viaje nocturno, Mona nos recuerda que no importa cunto nos alejemos, el pasado siempre nos acompaa. Una novela provocativa, desafiante, astuta, dolorosa, empoderante e hilarante de clmax literario y sanacin sexual. Mona es como una sauna: mejor no entres con la ropa puesta, o sin una fusta. Maliciosa y atrevida [...] Mona nos deleita al instante con una compaa sardnica, arrojando comentarios irnicos mientras se autoadministra un cctel de drogas, caf y alcohol. Espere la retorcida oscuridad de Ottessa Moshfegh con la brillante lucidez de Rachel Cusk. Cautivadora y desafiante [...] Oloixarac ofrece una crtica luminosa del negocio literario y revindica la escritura como un compromiso con las personas y alguna versin del amor, sin caer en simplismos o clichs. Oloixarac me hace rer constantemente. Hay momentos tan bien captados [...] que dan ganas de prolongar la conferencia [...] Claramente, este es un mundo que la autora conoce muy bien. Despiadada, muy divertida. Una stira... .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This slim novel opens with the titular Mona boarding a plane to Sweden, having woken up earlier that day at a Bay Area Caltrans station, bruised, bloodied, and confused. Hiding the bruises (how long do bruises last?), Mona attend the literati event, where they will award one of the handful "world-lit" authors a statue and 200,000 euros.
This isn’t really a story about a writing event—it’s a psychological exploration of the double consciousness of modern life. it’s a world where art has been fully infected by the milquetoast upper-middle class and whatever their current flavour of politics allows, where identity is a commodity above reproach regardless if it's merited; it’s academia, it’s torpid and soulless political correctness, it’s death-inducing stillness disguised as enlightenment.
But this is also a story of doldrums of womanhood, the perfidy of desire, and the potential of power within the female body: framed by CW: SA
Mona is raw, and has bitten me a new one. I somehow feel alive again. Make no mistake: this is book girl's book. It's for other maladaptive, former (can we ever really be former?) anorexia-ridden aesthetes, who will ape the role of women for the beautiful ease of sex and the self-inflicted tortures of forever being second-class within it. Do we even want to be better? Shove off.
I haven't even talked about the filthy, filthy (kidding, it's really boring, but it's kinda supposed to be) literary references, and the double-backing that make this novel so satirical and damn intelligent. I won't drone on any longer: This novel is brilliant. (