Dangerous Virtues (European Women Writers)

Ana María Moix is one of the most innovative and entertaining writers in Spain today. Her writings include children’s literature, poetry, novels, and short stories; her work has been praised throughout Europe and the Americas for its stylistic innovations, witty, satiric spirit, and feminist themes and fervor. The five stories collected in Dangerous Virtues (Las virtudes peligrosas), each varying greatly in style and substance, are among Moix’s most remarkable writings. The title story is a mesmerizing account of the relationship between two beautiful women who communicate only by staring at each other. "Once upon a Time" is an ironical exploration of the unhappy life of characters from fairy tales and children’s rhymes. "The Naive Man" tracks an insufferable young man’s downward spiral into drunkenness. Other stories in the collection include "The Problem," a comic tour de force about the troubled sexual relations between a bickering married couple, and "The Dead," the chilling self-analysis of a young wife whose thoughts reveal her weakening grasp of everyday reality. Sophisticated and unfailingly original, all of the stories are instantly accessible and absorbing. Dangerous Virtues is the English-language debut of this collection of stories from a fascinating contemporary writer.

Literature & Fiction

MOIX,ANA MARIA

Literary

University Of Nebraska Press

Julia (European Women Writers Series)

Through the long hours of one sleepless night, twenty-year-old Julia sorts through the story of her life so far. Set against the backdrop of Franco’s forty-year dictatorship, her personal history reveals its own small tyrannies, intrigues, and struggles for independence, laced with the sweetness and sadness of first loves, losses, and hopeless entanglements. Sleep may elude Julia, but the dreams and nightmares of a brief yet crowded lifetime of memories accompany her through the night, in particular memories of her beloved grandfather Don Julio, who fought on the losing side in the Spanish Civil War. It is his revolutionary fervor that inspires Julia, helping her to cope with a self-centered mother, an overbearing grandmother, would-be boyfriends, even the discomfiting ghost of her own younger self.This autobiographical novel marks the first appearance of the daring style and consummate skill that distinguishes Ana María Moix’s work and quickly established her as one of the most innovative and entertaining writers in contemporary Spain. Though touching on themes as dark as death and political repression, Julia’s story is, in the delicately balanced authority and lightness of Moix’s language, ultimately one of hope.

Ana María Moix is one of the most innovative and entertaining writers in Spain today. Her writings include children’s literature, poetry, novels, and short stories; her work has been praised throughout Europe and the Americas for its stylistic innovations, witty, satiric spirit, and feminist themes and fervor. The five stories collected in Dangerous Virtues (Las virtudes peligrosas), each varying greatly in style and substance, are among Moix’s most remarkable writings. The title story is a mesmerizing account of the relationship between two beautiful women who communicate only by staring at each other. "Once upon a Time" is an ironical exploration of the unhappy life of characters from fairy tales and children’s rhymes. "The Naive Man" tracks an insufferable young man’s downward spiral into drunkenness. Other stories in the collection include "The Problem," a comic tour de force about the troubled sexual relations between a bickering married couple, and "The Dead," the chilling self-analysis of a young wife whose thoughts reveal her weakening grasp of everyday reality. Sophisticated and unfailingly original, all of the stories are instantly accessible and absorbing. Dangerous Virtues is the English-language debut of this collection of stories from a fascinating contemporary writer.

Jones, Margaret E. W.

Bison Books

Through the long hours of one sleepless night, twenty-year-old Julia sorts through the story of her life so far. Set against the backdrop of Franco’s forty-year dictatorship, her personal history reveals its own small tyrannies, intrigues, and struggles for independence, laced with the sweetness and sadness of first loves, losses, and hopeless entanglements. Sleep may elude Julia, but the dreams and nightmares of a brief yet crowded lifetime of memories accompany her through the night, in particular memories of her beloved grandfather Don Julio, who fought on the losing side in the Spanish Civil War. It is his revolutionary fervor that inspires Julia, helping her to cope with a self-centered mother, an overbearing grandmother, would-be boyfriends, even the discomfiting ghost of her own younger self.
This autobiographical novel marks the first appearance of the daring style and consummate skill that distinguishes Ana María Moix’s work and quickly established her as one of the most innovative and entertaining writers in contemporary Spain. Though touching on themes as dark as death and political repression, Julia’s story is, in the delicately balanced authority and lightness of Moix’s language, ultimately one of hope.

Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona. 19 cm. 192 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Literatura'. Moix, Ana María 1947-2014 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-01-38060-X

Virtudes peligrosas/ Dangerous Virtues (Spanish Edition)

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Aims Intl Books Corp

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