
Dislocations
by Sylvia Molloy
Title:
Dislocations
Author:
Sylvia Molloy
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
89 pages, Not illustrated
Publisher:
Charco Press
ISBN-13:
9781913867355
EAN:
9781913867355
Publication Date:
01/11/2022
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
270
Dimensions (mm):
131 x 195 x 12
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
How do you keep a friendship intact, when Alzheimer''s has stolen the common ground of language, memory, and experience, that unites you?In brief, sharply drawn moments, Sylvia Molloys Dislocations records the gradual loss of a beloved friend, M.L., a disappearance in ways expected (forgotten names, forgotten moments) and painfully surprising (the reversion to a formal, proper Spanish from their previous shared vernacular). There are occasions of wonder, tooM.L. can no longer find the words to say she is dizzy, but can translate that message from Spanish to English, when it''s passed along by a friend. This loss holds Molloys sense of herself toothe person she is in relation to M.L. fades as her friends memory does. But the writer remains: ''Im not writing to patch up holes and make people (or myself) think that theres nothing to see here, but rather to bear witness to unintelligibilities and breaches and silences. That is my continuity, that of the scribe.''













