Estacion Delirio
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Author: Teresa Ruiz
Title: Estacion Delirio
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 352
Release Date: 2022-11-22
Details: Premio Nacional de Literatura de Per'u
Noviembre de 1984, Estaci'on Central de Stuttgart. Anne Kahl, secretaria de una famosa cl'inica psiqui'atrica, encabeza una caravana de mujeres que est'an a punto de abordar distintos trenes que las llevar'an a todos los rincones de Alemania. Anne ha asumido la misi'on de embarcarlas y, en buena cuenta, de liberarlas. Se trata de una operaci'on clandestina, pues ellas son pacientes muy delicadas del doctor Curtius Tauler, que las ha dado de alta tras seguir un tratamiento poco convencional. Para Anne, una artista oculta, la liberaci'on de las mujeres adquiere la estatura de una obra secreta, una performance que difumina los l'imites entre la raz'on y la locura. A~nos despu'es, la escritora Silvia Olaz'abal rememora los pasos de Anne, su gran amiga.
Con una prosa riqu'isima y una sensibilidad exquisita, Teresa Ruiz Rosas narra las vidas de aquellas mujeres, as'i como las de Anne y Silvia en Europa y el Per'u, investiga los v'inculos m'as profundos de la amistad y reflexiona sobre aquellos actos que cambian para siempre un destino, todo ello para componer una deslumbrante novela sobre el delirio del arte: revolucionario y transgresor, hondo y personal, como el valioso libro que el lector tiene entre manos.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Peru's National Prize for Literature
November 1984, Stuttgart Central Station. Anne Kahl, the secretary of a famous psychiatric clinic, leads a group of women who are about to hop on different trains, taking them to all corners of Germany. Anne has assumed the mission of setting them free. It is a clandestine operation. These women are Dr. Curtius Tauler's patients, who has discharged them after a rather unconventional treatment. For Anne, an undercover artist, liberating these women blurs the lines between reason and madness. Years later, her close friend, the writer Silvia Olaz'abal, tells her story.
With a rich prose and exquisite sensitivity, Teresa Ruiz Rosas shares the lives of these women, as well as those of Anne and Silvia in Europe and Peru. She closely looks at the deepest bonds of friendship and reflects on these life-changing events. All this, to compose a dazzling novel about the delirium of art: revolutionary and transgressive, deep and personal, just like this book.
EAN: 9788439740810
Package Dimensions: Height: 9.06 Inches, Length: 5.48 Inches, Weight: 0.89066753848 Pounds, Width: 0.9 Inches
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