Dialogue with a Somnambulist
Stories, Essays & a Portrait Gallery
New York : Catapult, 2023, ©2021.
Format: Book
Edition: First Catapult edition.
Description: xvii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"Renowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridjis now offers readers her first collection of shorter works, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy. Chloe Aridjis's stories and essays are known to transport readers into liminal, often dreamlike, realms. In this collection of works, we meet a woman guided only by a plastic bag drifting through the streets of Berlin who discovers a nonsense-named bar that is home to papier-mache monsters and one glass-encased somnambulist. Floating through space, cosmonauts are confronted not only with wonder and astonishment, but tedium and solitude. And in Mexico City, stray dogs animate public spaces, "infusing them with a noble life force." In her pen portraits, Aridjis turns her eye to expats and outsiders, including artists and writers such as Leonora Carrington, Mavis Gallant, and Beatrice Hastings. Exploring the complexity of exile and urban alienation, Dialogue with a Somnambulist showcases "the rare writer who reinvents herself in each book" (Garth Greenwell) and who is as imaginatively at home in the short form as in her longer fiction" -- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The limned route / by Tom McCarthy -- Stories. Dialogue with a Somnambulist -- Faits Divers -- Pigeon -- A Celebration of the Circus Flea -- The Kafka Society -- Museum of Night -- Notes on the International Lightning Strike Survivor Conference -- Crustaceans -- In the Arms of Morpheus -- Nail-Poem-Suit -- World Weather Report -- Essays. Into the Cosmos -- Kopfkino -- The allure of the analogue -- Hymn of the stray dog -- Baroque -- 15 moments in lightness in Fanny and Alexander -- The tension of transience -- Portrait gallery. Into the laboratory: Aby Warburg -- I am many: Beatrice Hastings -- Varieties of exile: Mavis Gallant -- A life remembered: Chiki Weisz -- A Lenora Carrington A-Z -- Tea and creatures with Lenora Carrington: a photo essay -- Uprooted: Encounters between Mexican Flora and its foreigners -- Map of a lost soul -- Last recital: Dinu Lipatti -- Where are you Patricia Sigl? -- Thinking green: Petra Kelly -- A brief history of the world.
ISBN:
9781646221820
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