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Nefando / Mónica Ojeda ; translated by Sarah Booker.
Van Pelt Library PQ8220.425.J433 N3413 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ojeda, Mónica, 1988- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Nefando. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Artists--Spain--Barcelona--Fiction.
- Artists.
- Siblings--Fiction.
- Siblings.
- Video games--Psychological aspects--Fiction.
- Video games.
- Barcelona (Spain)--Fiction.
- Barcelona (Spain).
- Genre:
- Horror fiction
- Novels
- Science fiction
- Science fiction.
- Horror fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 170 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First English-language edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "A techno-horror portrait of the fears and desires of six young artists whose lives are upended by a controversial video game, from National Book Award finalist Mónica Ojeda. Six young artists share an apartment in Barcelona: Kiki Ortega, a researcher writing a pornographic novel; Iván Herrera, a writer whose prose reveals a deeply conflicted relationship with his body; three siblings, Irene, Emilio, and Cecilia, who quietly search for ways to transcend their abuse as children; and El Cuco Martínez, a videogame designer whose creations push beneath the substrate of the digital world. All of them are connected in different ways to Nefando, a controversial cult video game whose purpose remains a mystery. In the parallel reality of the game, players found relief from the pain of past trauma and present shame, but also a frighteningly elastic sense of self and ethics. Is Nefando a game for horror enthusiasts, a challenge to players' morals, or a poetic exercise? What happens in a virtual world that admits every taboo? Unsparing, addictive, and perverse, Nefando takes us to the darkest corners of the web, revealing the inevitable entanglement of digital and physical worlds, and of technology and horror"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes translator's note.
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ojeda, Mónica, 1988- Nefando
- ISBN:
- 9781566896894
- 1566896894
- OCLC:
- 1374491526
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