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A nomadic family of circus performers, refugees from Romania, travels through Europe and Africa by caravan. The mother's death-defying act causes constant anxiety for her two daughters, who voice their fears through a grisly communal fairy tale about a child being cooked alive in polenta--but their real life is no less of a dark fable, and one that seems just as unlikely to have a happy ending. An actor and performance artist as well as a poet and novelist, Veteranyi was acclaimed for her seemingly "artless" narrative voice, in which pain and hilarity always vie for the upper hand--a voice at once lyrical and jaded, prurient and spiritual, comical and horrifying.
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Why the child is cooking in the polenta, Aglaja Veteranyi
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- Année de publication
- 2012
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- Titre
- Why the child is cooking in the polenta
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Aglaja Veteranyi
- Éditeur
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Publié
- 2012
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 200
- ISBN10
- 1564786862
- ISBN13
- 9781564786869
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Thème historique, Histoire, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Famille, Littérature contemporaine, Autobiographies et mémoires, 20e siècle, Mort, Réalisme magique, Enfance, Romans autobiographiques, Migration, Émigration, Roumanie, Littérature roumaine, Aliénation
- Première publication
- 2005
- Titre original
- Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht
- Évaluation
- 4,05 sur 5
- Description
- A nomadic family of circus performers, refugees from Romania, travels through Europe and Africa by caravan. The mother's death-defying act causes constant anxiety for her two daughters, who voice their fears through a grisly communal fairy tale about a child being cooked alive in polenta--but their real life is no less of a dark fable, and one that seems just as unlikely to have a happy ending. An actor and performance artist as well as a poet and novelist, Veteranyi was acclaimed for her seemingly "artless" narrative voice, in which pain and hilarity always vie for the upper hand--a voice at once lyrical and jaded, prurient and spiritual, comical and horrifying.