Prodigies: A Novel

Synopsis

Prodigies explores the story of the poet Novalis's birthplace in the German town of Weissenfels after it is converted into a boarding house.

Moving, subtle, and full of wit, irony, and dreams, this novel fills the house with the women who lived there throughout the nineteenth century, and across the flow of history constructs the secret drama of their destinies.Praise for Prodigies:"Gorodischer's rhythmic and transparent prose reveals the violence underlying bourgeois respectability. Prodigies is both incisive and incantatory."--Sofia Samatar, author of A Stranger in Olondria"Prodigies, which she considers to be her best novel . . . takes place in Germany in the home of the poet Novalis after his death, and is a humorous and ironic portrayal of the women who passed through that home."--Women and Power in Argentinean LiteratureAngélica Gorodischer was born in Buenos Aires in 1928 and has lived in Rosario since 1936. She has published many novels and short story collections including Kalpa Imperial, Mango Juice, and Trafalgar, as well as a memoir, History of My Mother. Her work has been translated into many languages and her translators include Ursula K. Le Guin and Alberto Manguel. With certain self-satisfaction she claims she has never written plays or poems, not even at sixteen when everybody writes poems, especially on unrequited love. She received two Fulbright awards as well as many literary awards around the world, including a 2014 Konex Special Mention Award.

Copyright:

2015

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

192 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781618731005

Related ISBNs:

9781618730992

Publisher:

Small Beer Press

Date of Addition:

09/18/15

Copyrighted By:

Angélica Gorodischer

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Horror, Literature and Fiction

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