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In The Museum of Useless Efforts Cristina Peri Rossi renders familiar, everyday situations uncanny through lyrical reinterpretations; at the same time, she somehow makes the uncanny appear quite ordinary. Crafting peculiar—and sometimes claustrophobically small—worlds, Peri Rossi explores the universal themes of desire, violence, and truth and the simultaneous and contradictory human capacities to repress and resist, speak and silence, desire and ignore. In these tales an insomniac is tormented by a stubborn lamb that refuses to jump over the fence; the momentary hesitation of a man on a crowded subway staircase who forgets whether he was going up or down unleashes pandemonium; and a patient receives a frantic call from his psychoanalyst, distraught that his wife has taken a new lover.
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“Starting from virtually nothing — a phrase, a commonplace idea, a trite situation — Cristina Peri Rossi fashions before our eyes delicate, eerily metaphysical little fictions. Reading her is like watching an expert glassblower at work” J.M. Coetzee, two-time winner of the Booker Award
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“Cristina Peri Rossi is not only aware of the hells of this world, she understanding the lures of paradise. Her exquisite prose leader her readers into a surrealist realm filled with forbidden yet fascinating options” Julio Cortázar
Uruguayan-born Cristina Peri Rossi has lived in exile in Spain since 1972. A novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer, she has written twenty books, including Solitaire of Love and The Ship of Fools. Tobias Hecht is the author of At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil.
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