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Solitaire of Love
Cristina Peri Rossi
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Description for Solitaire of Love
Paperback. Explores the sense of emotional exile that sexual passion can evoke. This is the author's fourth book to be translated into English-the others are "The Ship of Fools", "A Forbidden Passion", and "Dostoevsky's Last Night". It showcases the mesmerisingly rhythmic language that has become the trademark of this award-winning and prolific author. Translator(s): Rudder, Robert S.; Arjona, Gloria. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 181.
Solitaire of Love, an achingly lyrical novel by internationally acclaimed Latin American writer Cristina Peri Rossi, explores the sense of emotional exile that sexual passion can evoke. Only the fourth book of Peri Rossi’s to be translated into English—the others are The Ship of Fools, A Forbidden Passion, and Dostoevsky’s Last Night—Solitaire of Love showcases the mesmerizingly rhythmic language that has become the trademark of this award-winning and prolific author of novels, essay collections, poetry, and short stories.
Tracing the course of a relationship as it evolves into uncompromising self-destruction, the narrator of Solitaire of Love becomes addicted to his ... Read more
Solitaire of Love, an achingly lyrical novel by internationally acclaimed Latin American writer Cristina Peri Rossi, explores the sense of emotional exile that sexual passion can evoke. Only the fourth book of Peri Rossi’s to be translated into English—the others are The Ship of Fools, A Forbidden Passion, and Dostoevsky’s Last Night—Solitaire of Love showcases the mesmerizingly rhythmic language that has become the trademark of this award-winning and prolific author of novels, essay collections, poetry, and short stories.
Tracing the course of a relationship as it evolves into uncompromising self-destruction, the narrator of Solitaire of Love becomes addicted to his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822325406
SKU
V9780822325406
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About Cristina Peri Rossi
Cristina Peri Rossi was born in Uruguay in 1941. At the age of 31, her political activism prompted her to flee to Spain, where she has since remained. The author of twenty books—including Dostoevsky’s Last Night and A Forbidden Passion—Peri Rossi was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim grant for fiction in 1994 and the City of Barcelona Prize for the ... Read more
Reviews for Solitaire of Love
“A truly original work. Cristina Peri Rossi masterfully orchestrates an alternate and highly intelligent exploration of erotica. Her fabulous writing wittily imbalances the delicate inner linguistic structure of love. Slowly dissecting sexuality, it offers itself at the end of this inner trip as the only linguistic truth: love is a solitary, organic game.”—Teresa M. Vilaros, author of El mono del ... Read more