Lexicon of Affinities - Couverture souple

Vitale, Ida

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1913867595 ISBN 13 : 9781913867591

Editeur : Charco Press, 2025

Synopsis

A prowl through words reveals the unstable character of the cosmos.

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, 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ida Vitale (Uruguay, 1923) is a poet, translator, essayist, and literary critic. In 2018, she was just the fifth woman to receive the prestigious Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the highest recognition for literature in Spanish. In addition to the Cervantes Prize, she has also received the FIL Literature Prize (2018), Max Jacob Prize (2017), Federico García Lorca Poetry Prize (2016), Reina Sofía Poetry Prize (2015), Alfonse Reyes Prize (2014), and Octavio Paz Prize (2009), and was named by the BBC as one of the 100 most influential women of 2019.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Charco Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913867595
• ISBN 13: 9781913867591
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 233
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