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*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Translation Prize**Finalist for the National Translation Award**Honorable Mention for the Society of Authors TA (Translators Association) First Translation Prize**Honorable Mention for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize* “These days, when an American president has decreed that ‘there are ...

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GENERIC
Titre
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
Éditeur
Penguin Classics
Type de produit
paperback
Présentation du livre
paperback
Date de sortie
5/28/2024 12:00:00 AM
Langue d'origine
English
ISBN
143137085
Dimensions
5.07 x 0.49 x 7.7 inches
Nombre de pages
272 pages
Langue
English
Résumé
*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Translation Prize**Finalist for the National Translation Award**Honorable Mention for the Society of Authors TA (Translators Association) First Translation Prize**Honorable Mention for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize* “These days, when an American president has decreed that ‘there are only two genders: male and female’ . . . an undaunted, lyrical voice from a southern corner of the hemisphere offers a model of resistance.” —The New Yorker “Intoxicating . . . S e x y, political and deeply humane . . . We all owe Penguin Classics a round of shots for A Last Supper of Queer Apostles.” —The Washington Post A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's queer counterculture who celebrated “melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all kinds” (Garth Greenwell) in playful, performative, linguistically inventive essays, now in English for the first time A Penguin Classic“I speak from my difference,” wrote Pedro Lemebel, an openly queer writer and artist living through Chile’s AIDS epidemic and the collapse of the Pinochet dictatorship. In brilliantly innovative essays—known as crónicas—that combine memoir, reportage, fiction, history, and poetry, he brought visibility and dignity to sexual minorities, the poor, and the powerless. Touching on everything from Che Guevara to Elizabeth Taylor, from the aftermath of authoritarian rule to the daily lives of Chile’s locas—a slur for trans women and effeminate g a y men that he boldly reclaims—his writing infuses political urgency with playfulness, realism with absurdism, and resistance with camp, and his AIDS crónicas immortalize a generation of Chileans doubly “disappeared” by casting each loca, as she falls sick, in the starring role of her own private tragedy. This volume brings together the best of his work, introducing readers of English to the subversive genius of a literary activist and queer icon whose acro
Auteur
Pedro Lemebel, Gwendolyn Harper, Idra Novey
Date de parution
5/28/2024 12:00:00 AM