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Our Dead World
by
Liliana Colanzi
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| Title: | Our Dead World |
| Author: | Liliana Colanzi |
| Genre: | Stories |
| Written: | 2014 (Eng. 2017) |
| Length: | 105 pages |
| Original in: | Spanish |
| Availability: | Our Dead World - US |
| Nuestro mundo muerto - US | |
| Our Dead World - UK | |
| Our Dead World - Canada | |
| Il nostro mondo morto - Italia | |
| Nuestro mundo muerto - España |
- Spanish title: Nuestro mundo muerto
- Translated by Jessica Sequeira
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Why we haven't reviewed it yet:
Story collection (and, sorry, often don't see the point to story collections); didn't take to it at all
Chances that we will review it:
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| Source | Rating | Date | Reviewer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dublin Rev. of Books | . | 1/5/2017 | Alan Crilly |
From the Reviews:
- "Colanzi’s characters are often under intense psychic pressure and mentally disintegrating in response to societal, familial, or historical pressures. (...) From her wide repertoire of devices, her use of Beckett-like parataxis is particularly effective in turning the psychological screw. (...) In this short book, Colanzi offers an extraordinary density of ideas, transmitted in shape-shifting and affecting prose. The translator, Jessica Sequiera, deserves immense credit for her deft rendering of this complex work." - Alan Crilly, Dublin Review of Books
Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure.
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Our Dead World:
- Dalkey Archive Press publicity page
- Almadía publicity page
- Eterna Cadencia publicity page
- gran via publicity page
- Correo del Sur (Spanish)
- Dublin Review of Books
- Estado Crítico (Spanish)
- Kirkus Reviews
- Página|12 (Spanish)
- la Repubblica (Italian)
- See Index of Latin and South American literature
- Other books from Dalkey Archive Press under review
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Bolivian author Liliana Colanzi Serrate was born in 1981.
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