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Synopsis
Discusses life, time, beauty, experience, meaning, music, and art
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Language Notes
Text: English, Portugese (translation)
From Library Journal
Artistically reminiscent of this Ukranian-born Brazilian's The Hour of the Star ( LJ 4/15/86) and The Passion According to G.H. ( LJ 10/15/88), The Stream of Life (published as Agua viva in 1973) is as much an extended metaphor for the act of writing as it is the lyrical, plotless monologue of the unnamed female protagonist's awareness of self-realization. Linguistic innovations, including neologisms ("independs"), an abstruse style, and hermetic "discoveries" that are "unsayable and uncommunicable" make this single-chapter novelette difficult, if not unreadable, for all but the persistent. More accessible are the 29 short stories of Soulstorm, taken from two collections first published in 1974. The 13 vignettes comprising Stations of the Body unify the common theme of pent-up frustrations and repressed sexuality. The esoteric and introspective enigmas of Where You Were at Night are more philosophical and experimental; these 16 tales, some fewer than two pages in length, cyclically snatch ideas, motifs, and phrases from one another. A more approachable and attractive sampling of this major 20th-century Latin American feminist writer.
- Lawrence Olszewski, OCLC, Dublin, Ohio
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0816617821
- ISBN 13 9780816617821
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages126
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