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Dislocations

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By (author): Sylvia Molloy

Translated by: Jennifer Croft

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.'

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Nov 2022
  • Publisher: Charco Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781913867355

About Sylvia Molloy

Sylvia Molloy (Buenos Aires 1938-2022) was a novelist essayist and a leading literary critic of Latin American literature. She was Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities Emerita at New York University where she taught Latin American and comparative literatures. In 2007 at New York University she created the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish which was the first programme of its kind in the United States. She was the author of two novels: En común olvido (Shared Oblivion 2002) and En breve cárcel (Soon Jail 1981) and had written several books of short prose including: Varia imaginación (Varied Imagination 2003) Citas de lectura (Reading Dates 2017) Vivir entre lenguas (Living Between Languages 2016) and Dislocations originally entitled Desarticulaciones (2010). Her critical work includes At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America (1991) and Hispanisms and Homosexualities (1998). She was a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation the National Endowment for the Humanities the Social Science Research Council and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Dislocations is her first book of fiction to appear in English.Jennifer Croft won the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for Homesick and the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuks Flights. She has also translated Federico Falcos A Perfect Cemetery  Romina Paulas August Pedro Mairals The Woman from Uruguay and Olga Tokarczuks The Books of Jacob. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of Iowa.

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