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En breve cárcel
1981
First Published
3.69
Average Rating
158
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La novela de Sylvia Molly, narrada en presente y en tercera persona, produce un efecto de intimidad que es único y es inolvidable. En el relato, no hay tragedia porque las mujeres de la novela son amigas o amantes, rivales o cómplices pero construyen sus intrigas alejadas del mundo masculino y de la lógica conyugal. Parecen vivir -o quieren vivir- una nueva forma del amor cortés, sin propiedad y sin ley, en el que sólo persiste la luminosa inmediatez del deseo. La historia se construye tan de cerca que nos da la sensación de estar espiando una escena prohibida, y el efecto de verdad -la certeza de que la historia es cierta y ha sucedido tal cual se cuenta- es tan nítido que leemos "En breve cárcel" como si fuera una autobiografía.
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Author

Sylvia Molloy
Sylvia Molloy
Author · 8 books

Sylvia Molloy is an Argentine writer and critic who has taught at Princeton, Yale and NYU, from where she retired in 2010. At NYU she held the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities. She is the author of two novels: En común olvido (2002). She has also written two short prose pieces, Varia imaginación (2003) and Desarticulaciones (2010). Her critical work includes La Diffusion de la littérature hispano-américaine en France au XXe siècle (1972), Las letras de Borges (1979), At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America (1991), Poses de fin de siglo. Desbordes del género en la modernidad (2013), and edited volumes such as Hispanisms and Homosexualities (1998) and Poéticas de la distancia. Adentro y afuera de la literatura argentina (2006). She has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. She has served as President of the Modern Language Association of America and of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana and holds an honorary degree in humane letters from Tulane University. In 2007 she created the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish, with the collaboration of Lila Zemborain and Mariela Dreyfus. The MFA is the first program of its kind in the United States. It is modeled along the lines of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing in English, taking advantage as well of a similar, bilingual Program, at University of Texas at El Paso. Classes and workshops are taught in Spanish and students are mostly Spanish, Latin American or Latino.

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