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A Corpse of One's Own Una ombra fosca com un núvol de tempesta Isabel-Clara Sima
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780820420486
- Book Title
- Corpse of One's Own
- Book Series
- Catalan Studies: Translations and Criticism
- Publisher
- Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
- Item Length
- 6 in
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Fiction
- Topic
- European / Spanish & Portuguese, Literary, Semiotics & Theory
- Item Weight
- 8.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 9 in
- Number of Pages
- 168 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
ISBN-10
0820420484
ISBN-13
9780820420486
eBay Product ID (ePID)
841138
Product Key Features
Book Title
Corpse of One's Own
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Language
English
Topic
European / Spanish & Portuguese, Literary, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year
1993
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction
Book Series
Catalan Studies: Translations and Criticism
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Item Length
6 in
Item Width
9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
92-036500
Reviews
«Isabel-Clara Simó's 1991 crime novel 'Una ombra fosca com un núvol de tempesta' has been superbly translated by Patty Hart with the intriguing non-literal title 'A Corpse of One's Own'. The story is full of suspense and surprises, but the background is all too familiar - women trying to solve moral, social, and political problems - their own and the world's - with or without the help of a man, sometimes succeeding and sometimes not, but always paying a heavy price.» (Kathleen McNerney, West Virginia University) «Isabel-Clara Simó's novel, 'A Corpse of One's Own', is in the first half, as lucid and disenchanted a look at feminine alienation as the one that Fritz Lang, using the framework of the detective genre, showed in 'Blue Gardenia'. In the second part, the thriller acquires fearful cosmic dimensions, and we would be tempted to think of Fritz Lang again - this time in the Dr. Mabuse cycle - if we didn't have at hand a more recent Hispanic example, that of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán in 'Galíndez', a work that, like Isabel-Clara Simó's, demonstrates the resounding failure of innocence in a corrupt work. Whether we read this as a feminist novel or as detective fiction, the voice of Isabel-Clara Simó resonates for the justness of tone and draughtsmanship, verbal inventiveness, and precise observation.» (Pere Gimferrer) «øPatricia Hart! shows herself to be a collaborative and resourceful translator.» (Sheila McIntosh, World Literature Today)
TitleLeading
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Series Volume Number
Vol. 7
Synopsis
"A Corpse of One's Own" is a feminist thriller written originally in Catalan, a tongue effectively persecuted in Spain during 40 years of Francoist dictatorship. Thus the novel comes to us from a two-pronged history of oppression, and wrenches its plot to resolution in a way that may shock even those familiar with the feminist genre fiction of Sara Paretsky or Sue Grafton. Simo's Sara Costa, unlike V.I. Warshawski or Kinsey Milhone, is not initially strong or independent, well-educated, or even particularly smart, and she is certainly not hip by anyone's definition. In fact, fifty-five year-old Sara is the type of woman most likely to take abuse from a patriarchy she can never fully understand. While Grafton and Paretsky brilliantly expose the wounds of being one-down (female, minority, poor, or idealistic, for example), then deftly suture these incisions into our society with their heroines' wit and knack for survival, Simo shows us life as a horribly messy accident for which the novel has no emergency medical training. As readers, all we can do is contemplate the carnage in horror.", A Corpse of One's Own is a feminist thriller written originally in Catalan, a tongue effectively persecuted in Spain during 40 years of Francoist dictatorship. Thus the novel comes to us from a two-pronged history of oppression, and wrenches its plot to resolution in a way that may shock even those familiar with the feminist genre fiction of Sara Paretsky or Sue Grafton. Simó's Sara Costa, unlike V.I. Warshawski or Kinsey Milhone, is not initially strong or independent, well-educated, or even particularly smart, and she is certainly not hip by anyone's definition. In fact, fifty-five year-old Sara is the type of woman most likely to take abuse from a patriarchy she can never fully understand. While Grafton and Paretsky brilliantly expose the wounds of being one-down (female, minority, poor, or idealistic, for example), then deftly suture these incisions into our society with their heroines' wit and knack for survival, Simó shows us life as a horribly messy accident for which the novel has no emergency medical training. As readers, all we can do is contemplate the carnage in horror.
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