The best of contemporary Argentine author Cecilia Pav n's short stories. Poet, writer and translator Cecilia Pav n 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--Pav n 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, Pav n'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, Pav n'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. Pav n'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 Pav n's own poetic prot g Jacob Steinberg, Little Joy collects the best of Pav n's short stories written between 1999-2020, originally published in three volumes in Spanish.
Little Joy: Selected Stories
Cecilia Pavon
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- Published by:
- Semiotext(e)
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- Jacob Steinberg
- Pub date:
- 04/20/2021
- Binding type:
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- Pages:
- 224
- ISBN:
- 9781635901405
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