
Comemadre
by Roque Larraquy
Title:
Comemadre
Author:
Roque Larraquy
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
152 pages, Illustrations
Publisher:
Coffee House Press
ISBN-13:
9781566895156
EAN:
9781566895156
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
280
Dimensions (mm):
130 x 197 x 25
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Literary Latin American Flatliners: a smart, engrossing, and darkly funny novel experimenting with where life and love begin and end.On the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1907, Doctor Quintana pines for head nurse Menéeacute;ndez while he and his colleagues embark on a grisly series of experiments to investigate the line between life and death. One hundred years later, a celebrated artist goes to extremes in search of aesthetic transformation, turning himself into an art object. How far are we willing to go, Larraquy asks, in pursuit of transcendence? The world of Comemadre is full of vulgarity, excess, and farce: strange ants that form almost perfect circles, missing body parts, obsessive love affairs, and flesh-eating plants. Here the monstrous is not alien, but the consequence of our relentless pursuit of collective and personal progress.












