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- Book Title
- Comemadre
- Publication Name
- Comemadre
- Title
- Comemadre
- Translator
- Heather Cleary
- Contributor
- Heather Cleary (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781566895156
- ISBN
- 9781566895156
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 10/07/2018
- Release Year
- 2018
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 7.7in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Topic
- Hispanic & Latino, Dystopian, Historical
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 5.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 152 Pages
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Literary Latin American FLATLINERS: a smart, engrossing, and darkly funny novel experimenting with where life and love begin and end.
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Coffee House Press
ISBN-10
1566895154
ISBN-13
9781566895156
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239625832
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Book Title
Comemadre
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Hispanic & Latino, Dystopian, Historical
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
152 Pages
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Item Length
7.7in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
5.3 Oz
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Pq7798.422.A76c6613
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"Shuttling between B-movie horror and exceedingly dark comedy, the novel is somehow both genuinely scary and genuinely funny, sometimes on the same page--a wickedly entertaining ride." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "Like a beloved B movie, this is the campy horror show all my fellow sickos have been waiting for." --Keaton Patterson "Larraquy has written a perfect novel: spare, urgent, funny, original, and infused with wonderfully subtle grace. I neglected my domestic duties to devour it." --Elisa Albert "I love Comemadre. But here I am, days after reading, still asking myself what kind of book it is. Is it humor? Horror? Is it about art? Science? Philosophy? One thing is certain: it is just the kind of book that you'll want to recommend to your friends over and over again, and here I am, still doing it!" --Samanta Schweblin "Moving from a sanatorium at the beginning of the twentieth century in which the doctors decide to use their patients as fodder for a deadly experiment, to an artist at the beginning of the twenty-first who pushes the fleshy manipulations of Chris Burden and Damien Hirst to a new extreme, Comemadre is a raucous and irreverent philosophical meditation on the relationship of the body to science and to art. Walking a line between parody and critique, this is a grotesquely funny and powerful book." --Brian Evenson "Comemadre is one of the wildest and most disturbing novels I've read. With a language that dissects the world while describing it, Roque Larraquy constructs a dark fable about the annihilation of the body, about perversions of art and science. Heather Cleary's magnificent translation does justice to this extravagant gem--composed like a Hieronymus Bosch diptych that sets us before the monsters of unleashed reason." --Daniel Saldaña París Praise for Roque Larraquy: "Who the devil is this Roque Larraquy? His first book seems like an artifact written with four hands--amid laughter and hidden from everyone--by Jorge Luis Borges and Witold Gombrowicz. Or maybe not Gombrowicz, but Virgilio Piñera. Or maybe not Borges, but Villiers de L'Isle-Adam adapted by Paul Valéry (did you know Valéry spent his youth digging up skulls to make calculations?). What is certain is that this truly magnificent novel exudes intelligence, humor, cynicism, cruelty. Cold passion with unsettling--and unexpectedly moving--effects." --Ignacio Echevarría "Larraquy spent seven years writing his first book . . . and another three passed before the appearance of his second. We don't know how long it will take him to publish his next one, but we intuit that there will be a third and a fourth, because in what we've seen of his work up to now there is a discernible literary project--a project that's difficult to define, for which terms like 'story,' 'novel,' or 'poetry' are insufficient." --Maximiliano Tomas, La Nación "In spite of having all the necessary ingredients for a historical novel (the clinic, sordid and suburban; the positivist, anthropometric delusions), it's not a historical novel; in spite of possessing, at first glance, the traits that generally mark 'realistic fiction,' (the cross between conceptual art, spectacle, and biopolitics; the gray areas of death, sickness and animalism as thresholds of humanity), something in its tone subjects the reality to a process of distancing treating it as a foreign body--alien--neither completely alive nor completely dead." --Diego Peller, Bazar Americano, "I love Comemadre. But here I am, days after reading, still asking myself what kind of book it is. Is it humor? Horror? Is it about art? Science? Philosophy? One thing is certain: it is just the kind of book that you'll want to recommend to your friends over and over again, and here I am, still doing it!" --Samanta Schweblin "Moving from a sanatorium at the beginning of the twentieth century in which the doctors decide to use their patients as fodder for a deadly experiment, to an artist at the beginning of the twenty-first who pushes the fleshy manipulations of Chris Burden and Damien Hurst to a new extreme, Comemadre is a raucous and irreverent philosophical meditation on the relationship of the body to science and to art. Walking a line between parody and critique, this is a grotesquely funny and powerful book." --Brian Evenson "Comemadre is one of the wildest and most disturbing novels I've read. With a language that dissects the world while describing it, Roque Larraquy constructs a dark fable about the annihilation of the body, about perversions of art and science. Heather Cleary's magnificent translation does justice to this extravagant gem--composed like a Hieronymus Bosch diptych that sets us before the monsters of unleashed reason." --Daniel Saldaa Pars Praise for Roque Larraquy: "Who the devil is this Roque Larraquy? His first book seems like an artifact written with four hands--amid laughter and hidden from everyone--by Jorge Luis Borges and Witold Gombrowicz. Or maybe not Gombrowicz, but Virgilio Piera. Or maybe not Borges, but Villiers de L'Isle-Adam adapted by Paul Valry (did you know Valry spent his youth digging up skulls to make calculations?). What is certain is that this truly magnificent novel exudes intelligence, humor, cynicism, cruelty. Cold passion with unsettling--and unexpectedly moving--effects." --Ignacio Echevarra "Larraquy spent seven years writing his first book . . . and another three passed before the appearance of his second. We don't know how long it will take him to publish his next one, but we intuit that there will be a third and a fourth, because in what we've seen of his work up to now there is a discernible literary project--a project that's difficult to define, for which terms like 'story,' 'novel,' or 'poetry' are insufficient." --Maximiliano Tomas, La Nacin "In spite of having all the necessary ingredients for a historical novel (the clinic, sordid and suburban; the positivist, anthropometric delusions), it's not a historical novel; in spite of possessing, at first glance, the traits that generally mark 'realistic fiction,' (the cross between conceptual art, spectacle, and biopolitics; the gray areas of death, sickness and animalism as thresholds of humanity), something in its tone subjects the reality to a process of distancing treating it as a foreign body--alien--neither completely alive nor completely dead." --Diego Peller, Bazar Americano, "I love Comemadre. But here I am, days after reading, still asking myself what kind of book it is. Is it humor? Horror? Is it about art? Science? Philosophy? One thing is certain: it is just the kind of book that you'll want to recommend to your friends over and over again, and here I am, still doing it!" --Samanta Schweblin "Moving from a sanatorium at the beginning of the twentieth century in which the doctors decide to use their patients as fodder for a deadly experiment, to an artist at the beginning of the twenty-first who pushes the fleshy manipulations of Chris Burden and Damien Hirst to a new extreme, Comemadre is a raucous and irreverent philosophical meditation on the relationship of the body to science and to art. Walking a line between parody and critique, this is a grotesquely funny and powerful book." --Brian Evenson "Comemadre is one of the wildest and most disturbing novels I've read. With a language that dissects the world while describing it, Roque Larraquy constructs a dark fable about the annihilation of the body, about perversions of art and science. Heather Cleary's magnificent translation does justice to this extravagant gem--composed like a Hieronymus Bosch diptych that sets us before the monsters of unleashed reason." --Daniel Saldaa Pars Praise for Roque Larraquy: "Who the devil is this Roque Larraquy? His first book seems like an artifact written with four hands--amid laughter and hidden from everyone--by Jorge Luis Borges and Witold Gombrowicz. Or maybe not Gombrowicz, but Virgilio Piera. Or maybe not Borges, but Villiers de L'Isle-Adam adapted by Paul Valry (did you know Valry spent his youth digging up skulls to make calculations?). What is certain is that this truly magnificent novel exudes intelligence, humor, cynicism, cruelty. Cold passion with unsettling--and unexpectedly moving--effects." --Ignacio Echevarra "Larraquy spent seven years writing his first book . . . and another three passed before the appearance of his second. We don't know how long it will take him to publish his next one, but we intuit that there will be a third and a fourth, because in what we've seen of his work up to now there is a discernible literary project--a project that's difficult to define, for which terms like 'story,' 'novel,' or 'poetry' are insufficient." --Maximiliano Tomas, La Nacin "In spite of having all the necessary ingredients for a historical novel (the clinic, sordid and suburban; the positivist, anthropometric delusions), it's not a historical novel; in spite of possessing, at first glance, the traits that generally mark 'realistic fiction,' (the cross between conceptual art, spectacle, and biopolitics; the gray areas of death, sickness and animalism as thresholds of humanity), something in its tone subjects the reality to a process of distancing treating it as a foreign body--alien--neither completely alive nor completely dead." --Diego Peller, Bazar Americano, "Shuttling between B-movie horror and exceedingly dark comedy, the novel is somehow both genuinely scary and genuinely funny, sometimes on the same page--a wickedly entertaining ride." --Publishers Weekly starred review "I love Comemadre. But here I am, days after reading, still asking myself what kind of book it is. Is it humor? Horror? Is it about art? Science? Philosophy? One thing is certain: it is just the kind of book that you'll want to recommend to your friends over and over again, and here I am, still doing it!" --Samanta Schweblin "Moving from a sanatorium at the beginning of the twentieth century in which the doctors decide to use their patients as fodder for a deadly experiment, to an artist at the beginning of the twenty-first who pushes the fleshy manipulations of Chris Burden and Damien Hirst to a new extreme, Comemadre is a raucous and irreverent philosophical meditation on the relationship of the body to science and to art. Walking a line between parody and critique, this is a grotesquely funny and powerful book." --Brian Evenson "Comemadre is one of the wildest and most disturbing novels I've read. With a language that dissects the world while describing it, Roque Larraquy constructs a dark fable about the annihilation of the body, about perversions of art and science. Heather Cleary's magnificent translation does justice to this extravagant gem--composed like a Hieronymus Bosch diptych that sets us before the monsters of unleashed reason." --Daniel Saldaña París Praise for Roque Larraquy: "Who the devil is this Roque Larraquy? His first book seems like an artifact written with four hands--amid laughter and hidden from everyone--by Jorge Luis Borges and Witold Gombrowicz. Or maybe not Gombrowicz, but Virgilio Piñera. Or maybe not Borges, but Villiers de L'Isle-Adam adapted by Paul Valéry (did you know Valéry spent his youth digging up skulls to make calculations?). What is certain is that this truly magnificent novel exudes intelligence, humor, cynicism, cruelty. Cold passion with unsettling--and unexpectedly moving--effects." --Ignacio Echevarría "Larraquy spent seven years writing his first book . . . and another three passed before the appearance of his second. We don't know how long it will take him to publish his next one, but we intuit that there will be a third and a fourth, because in what we've seen of his work up to now there is a discernible literary project--a project that's difficult to define, for which terms like 'story,' 'novel,' or 'poetry' are insufficient." --Maximiliano Tomas, La Nación "In spite of having all the necessary ingredients for a historical novel (the clinic, sordid and suburban; the positivist, anthropometric delusions), it's not a historical novel; in spite of possessing, at first glance, the traits that generally mark 'realistic fiction,' (the cross between conceptual art, spectacle, and biopolitics; the gray areas of death, sickness and animalism as thresholds of humanity), something in its tone subjects the reality to a process of distancing treating it as a foreign body--alien--neither completely alive nor completely dead." --Diego Peller, Bazar Americano, "Shuttling between B-movie horror and exceedingly dark comedy, the novel is somehow both genuinely scary and genuinely funny, sometimes on the same page--a wickedly entertaining ride." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "The prose is distilled but rich--like dark chocolate." --Chicago Tribune "Like a beloved B movie, this is the campy horror show all my fellow sickos have been waiting for." --Keaton Patterson "Larraquy has written a perfect novel: spare, urgent, funny, original, and infused with wonderfully subtle grace. I neglected my domestic duties to devour it." --Elisa Albert "I love Comemadre. But here I am, days after reading, still asking myself what kind of book it is. Is it humor? Horror? Is it about art? Science? Philosophy? One thing is certain: it is just the kind of book that you'll want to recommend to your friends over and over again, and here I am, still doing it!" --Samanta Schweblin "Moving from a sanatorium at the beginning of the twentieth century in which the doctors decide to use their patients as fodder for a deadly experiment, to an artist at the beginning of the twenty-first who pushes the fleshy manipulations of Chris Burden and Damien Hirst to a new extreme, Comemadre is a raucous and irreverent philosophical meditation on the relationship of the body to science and to art. Walking a line between parody and critique, this is a grotesquely funny and powerful book." --Brian Evenson "Comemadre is one of the wildest and most disturbing novels I've read. With a language that dissects the world while describing it, Roque Larraquy constructs a dark fable about the annihilation of the body, about perversions of art and science. Heather Cleary's magnificent translation does justice to this extravagant gem--composed like a Hieronymus Bosch diptych that sets us before the monsters of unleashed reason." --Daniel Saldaña París Praise for Roque Larraquy: "Who the devil is this Roque Larraquy? His first book seems like an artifact written with four hands--amid laughter and hidden from everyone--by Jorge Luis Borges and Witold Gombrowicz. Or maybe not Gombrowicz, but Virgilio Piñera. Or maybe not Borges, but Villiers de L'Isle-Adam adapted by Paul Valéry (did you know Valéry spent his youth digging up skulls to make calculations?). What is certain is that this truly magnificent novel exudes intelligence, humor, cynicism, cruelty. Cold passion with unsettling--and unexpectedly moving--effects." --Ignacio Echevarría "Larraquy spent seven years writing his first book . . . and another three passed before the appearance of his second. We don't know how long it will take him to publish his next one, but we intuit that there will be a third and a fourth, because in what we've seen of his work up to now there is a discernible literary project--a project that's difficult to define, for which terms like 'story,' 'novel,' or 'poetry' are insufficient." --Maximiliano Tomas, La Nación "In spite of having all the necessary ingredients for a historical novel (the clinic, sordid and suburban; the positivist, anthropometric delusions), it's not a historical novel; in spite of possessing, at first glance, the traits that generally mark 'realistic fiction,' (the cross between conceptual art, spectacle, and biopolitics; the gray areas of death, sickness and animalism as thresholds of humanity), something in its tone subjects the reality to a process of distancing treating it as a foreign body--alien--neither completely alive nor completely dead." --Diego Peller, Bazar Americano, "Who the devil is this Roque Larraquy? His first book seems like an artifact written with four hands--amid laughter and hidden from everyone--by Jorge Luis Borges and Witold Gombrowicz. Or maybe not Gombrowicz, but Virgilio Piera. Or maybe not Borges, but Villiers de L'Isle-Adam adapted by Paul Valry (did you know Valry spent his youth digging up skulls to make calculations?). What is certain is that this truly magnificent novel exudes intelligence, humor, cynicism, cruelty. Cold passion with unsettling--and unexpectedly moving--effects."--Ignacio Echevarra "Larraquy spent seven years writing his first book . . . and another three passed before the appearance of his second. We don't know how long it will take him to publish his next one, but we intuit that there will be a third and a fourth, because in what we've seen of his work up to now there is a discernible literary project--a project that's difficult to define, for which terms like 'story,' 'novel,' or 'poetry' are insufficient." --Maximiliano Tomas, La Nacin "In spite of having all the necessary ingredients for a historical novel (the clinic, sordid and suburban; the positivist, anthropometric delusions), it's not a historical novel; in spite of possessing, at first glance, the traits that generally mark 'realistic fiction,' (the cross between conceptual art, spectacle, and biopolitics; the gray areas of death, sickness and animalism as thresholds of humanity), something in its tone subjects the reality to a process of distancing treating it as a foreign body--alien--neither completely alive nor completely dead." --Diego Peller, Bazar Americano
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2018
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2017-056244
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