The third and final installment of Ariana Harwicz's "Involuntary Trilogy" finds us on familiar, disquieting ground. Under the spell of a mother’s madness, the French countryside transforms into a dreamscape of interconnected imagery: animals, desire, the functions of the body. Most troublingly: the comfort of a teenage son. Scorning the bourgeois mores and conventionality of their small town, she withdraws him from school and the two embark on ever more antisocial and dangerous behavior. Harwicz is at her best here, building an interior world so robust, and so grotesque, that it eclipses our shared reality. Savage, and savagely funny, she leaves us singed, if not scorched.

Tender

Literature & Fiction

HARWICZ, ARIANA

United States

Charco Press

Following the international success of&nbsp;Die, My Love&nbsp;(longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018), Ariana Harwicz again takes us into the darkest recesses of the imagination with this delirious, furious account of a mother and daughter bound by chaos as much as love. Driven to the edge by the men in their lives, they oscillate between erratic bursts of housework, lazing in the garden, and drunken escapades. But is the constant undercurrent of violence all in the daughter's mind or will they actually go through with their plan for revenge? With a shocking, edge-of-the-seat finale worthy of&nbsp;Thelma & Louise&nbsp;if it were remade by David Lynch,&nbsp;Feebleminded&nbsp;is a wild ride of a novel with echoes of Ágota Kristóf, Elfriede Jelinek and Alan Warner, and will leave you both shaken and begging for more.

Feebleminded

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Man Booker International Prize 2018 ―Longlist
In a forgotten patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons: embracing exclusion yet wanting to belong, craving freedom whilst feeling trapped, yearning for family life but wanting to burn the entire house down. Given surprising leeway by her family for her increasingly erratic behaviour, she nevertheless feels ever more stifled and repressed. Motherhood, womanhood, the banality of love, the terrors of desire, the brutality of ‘another person carrying your heart forever’: Die, My Love faces all this with a raw intensity. It’s not a question of if a breaking point will be reached, but rather when, and how violent a form will it take?
It’s impossible to come out unscathed from reading Ariana Harwicz. The language of Die, My Love cuts like a scalpel even as it attains a kind of cinematic splendour, evoking the likes of John Cassavetes, David Lynch and John Ford. In a text that explores the destabilising effects of passion and its absence, immersed in the psyche of a female protagonist always on the verge of madness (in the tradition of Sylvia Plath and Clarice Lispector), Harwicz moulds language, submitting it to her will in irreverent prose. Bruising and confrontational, yet anchored in an unapologetic beauty and lyricism, Die, My Love is a unique reading experience that quickly becomes addictive.

Die, My Love

Stirb doch, Liebling

Beck C. H.

Perder el juicio (Spanish Edition)

Literary

Editorial Anagrama

This is the story of a judicial process. A cold night begins when a man prepares his tea after a long day. Soon, outside his house, a crowd and the rumor that the man is a pedophile. Some neighbors ask for his head, take pictures of the condemned, and the boys are lifted on their shoulders.

Degenerado (Spanish Edition)

Entre 2012 y 2015, es decir, en solo tres años, aparecieron estas tres novelas que supusieron un acontecimiento singular en la literatura argentina. Podríamos aventurar que inscritas en la genealogía de Néstor Sánchez, Liliana Heer o Marosa di Giorgio –y después Aurora Venturini–, logran alcanzar un grado de empatía, de adhesión inmediata, casi podría decirse natural, al ejercicio radical de sacudir y zarandear la sintaxis del Río de la Plata. Desde entonces, Ariana Harwicz no solo ocupa un lugar único y central en la narrativa argentina sino que su influencia ha recorrido Latinoamérica y también España, y en ninguno de los numerosos países donde ha sido traducida ha dejado indiferente. 
Harwicz ha dicho por ahí: «¿Qué es escribir? ¿Qué es ser escritor? Saberlo sería traicionar la escritura.» Por supuesto, sobre todo para aquellos escritores que, como ella, escriben en trance, escriben como un kamikaze o como un cruce de Jean Genet con Santa Teresa, dictados por una lengua siempre un poco extranjera, alucinada y, ante todo, musical y hermosísima. Harwicz recoge también ese toque Manuel Puig en el primer plano de la familia o, mejor dicho, de los lazos familiares, como una tragicomedia, oscura y dulce a la vez. Un matrimonio, una madre y una hija, un hijo y una madre, son constelaciones apasionadas, sí, pero también números de varietés. 
Las tres novelas que componen esta Trilogía de la pasión se alían abiertamente contra etiquetas y tendencias de mercado y, ya que hablamos de pintura, citamos con Harwicz a Degas cuando advierte que «el artista ha de empezar su obra con el mismo ánimo que un criminal». 
Y quizás, añadimos, terminarla también como un crimen, enamorado y a cuchillazos.

Trilogía de la pasión (Trilogía De La Pasión) (Spanish Edition)

Matate, amor (Nueva Biblioteca) (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

Lengua de Trapo

MATATE, AMOR

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