Comemadre Roque Larraquy, trans. from the Spanish by Heather Cleary. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $ trade paper (p) ISBN Buy this book. With clear prose, dark humor, and a sense of humanity tucked behind all the morbidity, Comemadre is an uneven novella with one classic scene and a grim reminder of the disintegration of the body and the even quicker decay of the morality of powerful www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins. · Larraquy bisects Comemadre into two novellas, written in opposite order of appearance. The first takes place at an Argentinian hospital in , following a team of doctors as they develop an experiment to understand more about the afterlife and the universe as a whole.
Comemadre ebook By Roque Larraquy. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts. Save Not today. Format. ebook. Author. Roque Larraquy. Publisher. And that's only a morsel from the first half of Argentine writer Roque Larraquy's slim novel Comemadre, now available in an English translation by Heather Cleary. The second half is, joltingly, set in and concerns the reminiscences of a world-famous nine-fingered contemporary artist (the missing finger is part of an installation, of. ROQUE LARRAQUY: Long before it was populated by doctors and artists, Comemadre was just a structural idea: I wanted to write a novel in two parts, sew together two different narrative materials and force them live together in a reciprocally parasitic way, to unite them gradually in one multiple and continuous body, an unexpected flowering. Two.
Comemadre, written by Argentine author Roque Larraquy and translated by Heather Cleary, is divided into two narratives that take place years apart. The first follows a group of doctors conducting grotesque medical experiments in the name of science, and the second tells the story of an artist who undergoes physical transformations in service of his work. Comemadre by Roque Larraquy, translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary, is one of the most bizarre, darkly comic and fascinating books that I've read this year. This very short book, that you could probably read in one sitting, actually contains two sto. Comemadre Roque Larraquy, trans. from the Spanish by Heather Cleary. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $ trade paper (p) ISBN Buy this book.
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