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The cardboard house / Martín Adán ; translated and with an introduction by Katherine Silver ; afterword translated by Katherine Silver and Rick London.
- Title
- The cardboard house / Martín Adán ; translated and with an introduction by Katherine Silver ; afterword translated by Katherine Silver and Rick London.
- Author
- Adán, Martín, 1908-1985.
- Publication
- New York : New Directions, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PQ8497.F83 C313 2012 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 126 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- The novel presents a stunning series of flashes scenes, moods, dreams, and weather as the narrator wanders through Barranco (then an exclusive seaside resort outside Lima). In one beautiful, radical passage after another, he skips from reveries of first loves, South Pole explorations, and ocean tides, to precise and unashamed notations of class and of race: an Indian woman "with her hard, shiny, damp head of hair a mud carving," to a gringo gobbling "synthetic milk, canned meat, hard liquor." Adan's own aristocratic family was in financial freefall at the time, and, as the translator notes, The Cardboard House is as "subversive now as when it was written: Adan's uncompromising poetic vision and the trueness and poetry of his voice constitute a heroic act against cultural colonialism."
- Series Statement
- New Directions paperbook ; 1235
- Uniform Title
- Casa de cartón. English
- New Directions paperbook 1235.
- Alternative Title
- Casa de cartón.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Action and adventure fiction.
- Fiction
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780811219594 (acid-free paper)
- 0811219593 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2012014670
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library