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Optic nerve
- Title
- Optic nerve / Maria Gainza ; translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead.
- Author
- Gainza, María, 1975-
- Publication
- London : Harvill Secker, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Bunstead, Thomas
- Description
- 209 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Whenever I'm in survival mode I find myself magnetised by museums and galleries, like people running for air raid shelters in wartime." The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her. In these pages, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled by Michelangelo's bodies. The mystery of Rothko's refusal to finish murals for the Seagram Building in New York is blended with the story of a hospital in which a prostitute walks the halls while the narrator's husband receives chemotherapy. Episodes in art history interact with the narrator's life in Buenos Aires - her family and work; her loves and losses; her infatuations and disappointments. The effect is of a character refracted by environment, composed by the canvases she studies.
- Uniform Title
- Nervio òptico. English
- Alternative Title
- Nervio òptico.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Note
- Originally published in 2014 in Spanish as El nervio òptico.
- Language (note)
- Translated from Spanish.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-2129
- ISBN
- 9781787300279
- 1787300277
- 9781948226165
- 1948226162
- 9781473549784 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1088420953
- Author
- Gainza, María, 1975- author.
- Title
- Optic nerve / Maria Gainza ; translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead.
- Publisher
- London : Harvill Secker, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from Spanish.
- Added Author
- Bunstead, Thomas, translator.
- Other Form:
- Ebook version : 9781473549784
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-2129