Natural Histories
Nettel, Guadalupe (1973 -)
Natural Histories / Guadalupe Nettel - First English-language edition. - New York : Seven Stories Press , 2014 - 125 p. ; 21 cm
In each tale Nettel creates, with tightly wound narrative tension, a space wherein her characters feel excruciatingly human, exploring how the wounds we incur in life manifest themselves within us, clandestinely, irrevocably, both unseen and overtly. These five dark and delicately written stories unfold in fragile worlds, where animal behaviors parallel the ways in which human beings interact with one another and react to their environments. Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, a cat, a snake, and a strange fungus are mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature we keep hidden, buried. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce or the struggle against it, and the inexplicable connection that can bind, eerily, two beings together.
Translated from the Spanish to English.
9781609806057
Nettel, Guadalupe (1973 -) ----Translations into English.
Short stories
Family life----Fiction
PQ7298.424.E76 / M3813 2014
LAS FIC NET
Natural Histories / Guadalupe Nettel - First English-language edition. - New York : Seven Stories Press , 2014 - 125 p. ; 21 cm
In each tale Nettel creates, with tightly wound narrative tension, a space wherein her characters feel excruciatingly human, exploring how the wounds we incur in life manifest themselves within us, clandestinely, irrevocably, both unseen and overtly. These five dark and delicately written stories unfold in fragile worlds, where animal behaviors parallel the ways in which human beings interact with one another and react to their environments. Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, a cat, a snake, and a strange fungus are mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature we keep hidden, buried. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce or the struggle against it, and the inexplicable connection that can bind, eerily, two beings together.
Translated from the Spanish to English.
9781609806057
Nettel, Guadalupe (1973 -) ----Translations into English.
Short stories
Family life----Fiction
PQ7298.424.E76 / M3813 2014
LAS FIC NET
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