Carmen Boullosa

The Book of Anna

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Russia, 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace, Sergei, son of Anna Karenina, meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of his mother everywhere: the almost-living portrait that the Tsar intends to acquire and the opium-infused manuscripts she wrote just before her death, one of which opens a trapdoor to a wild feminist fairytale. Across the city, Clementine, an anarchist seamstress, and Father Gapón, the charismatic leader of the proletariat, tip the country ever closer to revolution. Boullosa lifts the voices of coachmen, sailors, maids, and seamstresses in this playful, polyphonic, and subversive revision of the Russian revolut… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Schnee, Samantha (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-56689-585-9
EAN: 9781566895859
Produktnummer: 33688049
Verlag: Coffee House Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'576 KB

Über den Autor

Carmen Boullosa-a Cullman Center, a Guggenheim, a DAAD and a FONCA Fellow-was born in Mexico City in 1954. She's a poet, playwright, essayist, novelist, and artist, and has been a professor at NYU, Columbia University, City College CUNY, Georgetown, and other institutions. She's now at Macaulay Honors College CUNY. The NYPL acquired her papers and artist books. More than a dozen books and over ninety dissertations have been written about her work.