SCHOOL FOR PATRIOTS - Softcover

KOHAN, MARTIN

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846687438 ISBN 13: 9781846687433

Verlag: Serpent's Tail, 2012

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Book by Kohan Martin

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Críticas:

A new generation of Argentinian writers, Martin Kohan and Rodrigo Fresan in the forefront, are showing that they are the worthy successors of Borges, Sabato and Bioy Casares (Le Devoir)

As in his fine boxing novel, Seconds Out, Kohan narrates this story in a detached and punctilious style ... his depiction of the psychological effects of tyranny is chillingly convincing. (David Evans FT 2012-06-23)

Uneasy reading with a creepy atmosphere throughout. (Alastair Mabbott Herald 2012-07-23)

An eloquent reminder that freedom cannot ever be taken for granted. (Morning Star 2012-09-01)

A brilliant and chilling study of authoritarianism, repression and surveillance from this Argentinean master of microscopic observation (New Internationalist 2012-10-01)

Reseña del editor:

A school assistant in Buenos Aires' most prestigious state school, Maria Teresa Cornejo's job is to keep the students in line. Suspecting that some of them are smoking in the school toilets, Maria Teresa takes to spying on them urinate - an activity she gets pleasure from listening to. Found out by her supervisor Senor Biasutto, she is not fired but forced into sexual collusion with him.

In this society all appears fair and liberal but within there is brutal repression and the teachers including Señor Biasutto draw up black-lists of candidates for torture. As tense and uncompromising as a novel by Elfriede Jelinek, School for Patriots powerfully shows how in a dictatorship the political and the sexual interact.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Serpent's Tail
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1846687438
• ISBN 13: 9781846687433
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 205