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A nomadic family of circus performers, refugees from Romania, travels through Europe and Africa by caravan. The mother's death-defying act causes constant anxiety for her two daughters, who voice their fears through a grisly communal fairy tale about a child being cooked alive in polenta--but their real life is no less of a dark fable, and one that seems just as unlikely to have a happy ending. An actor and performance artist as well as a poet and novelist, Veteranyi was acclaimed for her seemingly "artless" narrative voice, in which pain and hilarity always vie for the upper hand--a voice at once lyrical and jaded, prurient and spiritual, comical and horrifying.
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Why the child is cooking in the polenta, Aglaja Veteranyi
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2012
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- Titolo
- Why the child is cooking in the polenta
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Aglaja Veteranyi
- Editore
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Pubblicato
- 2012
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 200
- ISBN10
- 1564786862
- ISBN13
- 9781564786869
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Tema stórico, Storie vere, Biografie, Storia, Narrativa contemporanea, Autobiografie e memorie, Famiglia, XX Secolo, Morte, Realismo magico, Infanzia, Romanzi autobiografici, Migrazione, Emigrazione, Romania, Letteratura rumena, Alienazione
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2005
- Titolo originale
- Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht
- Valutazione
- 4,05 su 5
- Descrizione
- A nomadic family of circus performers, refugees from Romania, travels through Europe and Africa by caravan. The mother's death-defying act causes constant anxiety for her two daughters, who voice their fears through a grisly communal fairy tale about a child being cooked alive in polenta--but their real life is no less of a dark fable, and one that seems just as unlikely to have a happy ending. An actor and performance artist as well as a poet and novelist, Veteranyi was acclaimed for her seemingly "artless" narrative voice, in which pain and hilarity always vie for the upper hand--a voice at once lyrical and jaded, prurient and spiritual, comical and horrifying.