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| Other authors / contributors: | Rudder, Robert S., translator.
ChacoĢn de Arjona, Gloria, translator.
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| ISBN: | 9780822398110
0822398117
0822325039
9780822325031
0822325403
9780822325406
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file PDF
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| Notes: | Restrictions unspecified
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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| Summary: | "Solitaire of Love explores the sense of emotional exile that sexual passion can evoke. Tracing the course of a relationship as it evolves into uncompromising self-destruction, the narrator of Solitaire of Love becomes addicted to his own passion and to the body of his beloved. Erotic, romantic love becomes bewitchment, producing a heightened state where time is measured in the rhythms of a chosen body and pride becomes subservient to obsession. The specifics of this other body trump any claim to ordinary existence for the narrator, as sex becomes a kind of idolatrous slavery and love becomes a mechanism for self-immolation. As in Peri Rossi's other works, an ambiguous sense of gender and sexuality arise from her uniquely experimental prose and mystically erotic logic. Language is subsumed into this process as a way to bear witness, to transfix and capture the love object. The limbo of obsession, as described by Peri Rossi, creates an infantilizing brand of loneliness, broken by flashes of joy, insight, fury, and fear."--Jacket
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| Other form: | Print version: Peri Rossi, Cristina, 1941- Solitario de amor. English. Solitaire of love. Durham : Duke University Press, 2000 0822325039
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| Standard no.: | 10.1515/9780822398110
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