Mona
(Book - Regular Print)

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Published
Buenos Aires : Literatura Random House, 2019.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 23 cm
Status
Cottonwood Public Library - SPFIC - Spanish Collection - Fiction
OLOIXARAC, POLA MON
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Published
Buenos Aires : Literatura Random House, 2019.
Format
Book - Regular Print
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Spanish

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A novel.
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"Vienen a estos lugares creyéndose escritores y se van como personajes", piensa Mona Tarrile-Byrne, joven narradora peruana. En su espiral de drogas californianas y derivas eróticas, Mona aterriza en un pueblito de Suecia junto con unos pocos colegas nominados al prestigioso premio literario Basske-Wortz. En ese lugar límite -en la frontera del espacio habitable por la cultura, antes de la noche muerta del ártico-, 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, ideologías y mercado -de TED talks a orgasmos borgianos-, Pola Oloixarac retrata con alucinante acidez el círculo hípster de una weltliteratur imaginaria. La autora brilla en este thriller de ideas, una sátira devastadoramente actual de la brutalidad latente en las élites culturales y una oscura meditación sobre el poder de la lengua para transformar el mundo -- Página 4 de portada.
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"They come to these places believing themselves to be writers and they leave as characters", thinks Mona Tarrile-Byrne, young Peruvian narrator. In her spiral of Californian drugs and erotic drifts, Mona lands in a little town in Sweden along with a few colleagues nominated for the prestigious Basske-Wortz literary prize. In that limit place - on the border of habitable space for culture, before the dead night of the Arctic - discover the mysterious marks of a violence that can not be explained. Arrived from all over the world, writers are pleased and distrustful, measured and seduced. Between the protagonist's sexual and mental adventures and the debates about avant-gardes, ideologies and the market-from TED talks to borgian orgasms-Pola Oloixarac portrays with hallucinating acidity the circle of an imaginary weltliteratur. The author shines in this thriller of ideas, a devastatingly current satire of latent brutality in cultural elites and a dark meditation on the power of language to transform the world -- Page 4 of cover

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Oloixarac, P. (2019). Mona (Primera edición.). Literatura Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Oloixarac, Pola. 2019. Mona. Literatura Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Oloixarac, Pola. Mona Literatura Random House, 2019.

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Oloixarac, Pola. Mona Primera edición., Literatura Random House, 2019.

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