Little Joy : Selected Stories
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1635901405
ISBN-13
9781635901405
Publisher
Semiotext (E)
Imprint
Semiotext (E)
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 13th, 2021
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
244 grams
Dimensions
13.70 x 20.20 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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The best of contemporary Argentine author Cecilia Pavón''s short stories.
Poet, writer and translator Cecilia Pavón emerged in the late 1990s as one of the most prolific and central figures of the young Argentine literary scene--the so-called "Generation of the 90s": artists and writers whose aesthetics and politics were an earnest response to the disastrous impact of American-exported neoliberal policies and the resulting economic crisis of 2001. Their publications were fragile--xeroxed, painted on cardboard--but their cultural impact, indelible.
A cofounder of Buenos Aires''s independent art space and publishing press Belleza y Felicidad--where a whole generation of soon-to-be-famous Argentine artists showed for the first time--Pavón pioneered the use of "unpoetic" and intimate content, her verses often lifted from text messages or chatrooms, her tone often impish, yet brutally sincere. Fellow Argentine poet Marina Yuszczuk once wrote, "Pavón''s writing is filled with minor illuminations and conjectures; her syntax is the syntax of commas, ''buts,'' and disjunctives, thoughts and impressions organized into a current that flows, branches off, and stands still."
In 2015, Pavón''s first volume of collected poems, A Hotel With My Name, was published in English. Contemporary writers in the US, Australasia and Europe discovered a deep affinity with her work. Pavón''s protagonists, Ariana Reines noted, "are absolute women, guileless dreamers, saints in sneakers, on sidewalks, in jail, in Zara, on buses, in nightclubs, in bed."
Translated by Pavón''s own poetic protégé Jacob Steinberg, Little Joy collects the best of Pavón''s short stories written between 1999-2020, originally published in three volumes in Spanish.
Poet, writer and translator Cecilia Pavón emerged in the late 1990s as one of the most prolific and central figures of the young Argentine literary scene--the so-called "Generation of the 90s": artists and writers whose aesthetics and politics were an earnest response to the disastrous impact of American-exported neoliberal policies and the resulting economic crisis of 2001. Their publications were fragile--xeroxed, painted on cardboard--but their cultural impact, indelible.
A cofounder of Buenos Aires''s independent art space and publishing press Belleza y Felicidad--where a whole generation of soon-to-be-famous Argentine artists showed for the first time--Pavón pioneered the use of "unpoetic" and intimate content, her verses often lifted from text messages or chatrooms, her tone often impish, yet brutally sincere. Fellow Argentine poet Marina Yuszczuk once wrote, "Pavón''s writing is filled with minor illuminations and conjectures; her syntax is the syntax of commas, ''buts,'' and disjunctives, thoughts and impressions organized into a current that flows, branches off, and stands still."
In 2015, Pavón''s first volume of collected poems, A Hotel With My Name, was published in English. Contemporary writers in the US, Australasia and Europe discovered a deep affinity with her work. Pavón''s protagonists, Ariana Reines noted, "are absolute women, guileless dreamers, saints in sneakers, on sidewalks, in jail, in Zara, on buses, in nightclubs, in bed."
Translated by Pavón''s own poetic protégé Jacob Steinberg, Little Joy collects the best of Pavón''s short stories written between 1999-2020, originally published in three volumes in Spanish.
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