Lexicon of affinities / Ida Vitale ; translated by Sean Manning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vitale, Ida, author.

Contributor:

Manning, Sean (Translator), translator.

Standardized Title:

Léxico de afinidades. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Uruguayan literature.

Genre:

Experimental fiction.

Autobiographical fiction.

Physical Description:

231 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Charco Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English, translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

"With entries as varied as 'elbow,' 'Ophelia,' 'progress,' the painter Giorgio Morandi, 'chess,' 'Eulalia' (a friend of the author's aunt), and 'unicorn,' Ida Vitale constructs a dictionary of her long and passionately engaged artistic life. Taking the reader by the arm, she invites us to become her confidant, sharing her remarkable 20th century as a member of a storied generation of Latin American writers, of whom she is the last remaining alive. It's a compendium of friendship, travel, reading, and the endless opportunities she found for 'the joyful possibility of creation.' Like every dictionary (and yet, like no other), 'Lexicon of affinities' seeks to impose order on chaos, even if in its exuberant, whimsical profusion it lays bare the unstable character of the cosmos"--Page 4 of cover.

Notes:

Translation of: Léxico de afinidades.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781913867591

1913867595

OCLC:

1419681936

Publisher Number:

CIPO000158426