The Fourth World - Diamela Eltit

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Résumé :
No one can be closer to another than a mother to her unborn child. No one, that is, except unborn twins jostling for space in the womb. In this concise and inventive novel, a twin brother and sister vie for attention from the reader much as they competed for room before their birth. Their prenatal intimacy and jealousy interlace until they can hardly recognize who is who.?The chaos originating at the very moment of the twins’...

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Sommaire:
conception gains dramatic proportions when they enter the world male and female.From the moment of their births, everything changes. The lives of the family members begin to unwind as they are each consumed by illness, obsession, and insanity. The inevitable and violent dissolution of the family becomes a metaphor in which Diamela Eltit explores the social crises in Chile during the military dictatorship of General Cesare Augusto Pinochet.Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1949, Diamela Eltit now makes her home in Mexico as Chile’...