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Dangerous Virtues
Ana María Moix
出版
University of Nebraska Press
, 1997
主題
Fiction / General
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
0803282370
9780803282377
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1MeBlzMgZfEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Ana María Moix is one of the most innovative and entertaining writers in Spain today. Her writings include children’s literature, poetry, novels, and short stories; her work has been praised throughout Europe and the Americas for its stylistic innovations, witty, satiric spirit, and feminist themes and fervor. The five stories collected in
Dangerous Virtues
(
Las virtudes peligrosas
), each varying greatly in style and substance, are among Moix’s most remarkable writings. The title story is a mesmerizing account of the relationship between two beautiful women who communicate only by staring at each other. "Once upon a Time" is an ironical exploration of the unhappy life of characters from fairy tales and children’s rhymes. "The Naive Man" tracks an insufferable young man’s downward spiral into drunkenness. Other stories in the collection include "The Problem," a comic tour de force about the troubled sexual relations between a bickering married couple, and "The Dead," the chilling self-analysis of a young wife whose thoughts reveal her weakening grasp of everyday reality. Sophisticated and unfailingly original, all of the stories are instantly accessible and absorbing.
Dangerous Virtues
is the English-language debut of this collection of stories from a fascinating contemporary writer.