La reina de espadas /
This book shows us an Elena Garro only her closest friends knew. An Elena who is human and, therefore, multifaceted and fallible. For this masterful portrait, Jazmina Barrera mines Garro's personal writings rigorously and with a sense of humor, combining insights from excerpts of her works, dia...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Barcelona :
Lumen,
2024.
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| Edition: | Primera edición |
| Series: | Narrativa (Editorial Lumen)
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| Summary: | This book shows us an Elena Garro only her closest friends knew. An Elena who is human and, therefore, multifaceted and fallible. For this masterful portrait, Jazmina Barrera mines Garro's personal writings rigorously and with a sense of humor, combining insights from excerpts of her works, diaries, letters and interviews with quotes from documentaries, the Elena Garro Papers in the Princeton University archives, and even tarot, I Ching and astrology readings. Queen of Spades showcases Garro's unique way of inhabiting the world and the insights she contributed to it via her many obsessions: time, catastrophe, cats, peasant struggles, stagecraft and travel. Readers will find no judgments or certainties here, only a chameleon-like personality that sees the world through an intense, feminist and intelligent lens and evolves according to its findings. Thanks to Jazmina Barrera's keen observations, nourished by her infinite curiosity and prodigious memory, we are treated to a series of freeze frames of one of the great authors of the twentieth century, by a writer well on her way to joining those ranks. |
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| Physical Description: | 266 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [260]-264). |
| ISBN: | 9786073842617 6073842619 9788426430779 8426430775 |