Soon after mario was born, his parents returned to lima. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read obra reunida 2 obra reunida 2. Rather than have a plot or any story arc, the novella simply exists as a snapshot of an existence. Over time i have realized that the disease comes in spurts. Obra reunida 2 obra reunida 2 ebook written by mario bellatin. Mario bellatin was born in mexico city in 1960 and studied film in cuba. Mario bellatins beauty salon words without borders.
Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. The brevity of bellatin s novella is deceptivein just sixtythree pages, the story of this unnamed narrator, a crossdressing, homosexual hair stylist who turns his beloved beauty salon into a hospice for. Mario bellatin s beauty salon, translated elegantly from the spanish by kurt hollander, is a strange and beautiful parable about human bodies living and dying on the fringes of society. Beauty salon, a novella by the mexican writer mario bellatin and translated into english by kurt hollander, is a sad but ultimately lifeaffirming story told by an unnamed narrator who has converted his beauty salon, salon to the stars, into a hospice called the terminal for men in the last stages of a horrific disease.
Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. Beauty salon, a novella by the mexican writer mario bellatin and translated into english by kurt hollander, is a sad but ultimately lifeaffirming story told by an unnamed narrator who has converted his beauty salon, salon to the stars, into a hospice called the terminal for men in. The nameless narrator is transvestite who ran a beauty salon but in recent yeas has converted it into the terminal, a place where terminally ill men close to death from an unidentified but aidslike plague spend their final days. On the one hand are ranged the values of rationality, coolness, shrew selfseeking, energetic individualism, radical protest and rebellion. In 1987, bellatin moved to cuba, where he studied screenplay writing at the international film school latinoamericana. This focus on production underlines the social and political nature of space. Obra reunida 2 obra reunida 2 by mario bellatin books. In mario bellatins novel, two separated, yet, due to the narrators figure, intertwined spaces are present at the same time. A singular talent and risktaking storyteller, bellatin is the author of the short novels, canon perpetuo, efecto invernadero, damas chinas, and poeta ciego. There are periods in which the beauty salon is completely empty. As recent work by cultural geographers suggests, space is a condensation of the acts that comprise it.
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