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Byobu / Ida Vitale ; translated by Sean Manning.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: Edinburgh : Charco Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 85 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1913867021
  • 9781913867027
Uniform titles:
  • ABC de Byobu. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
A story -- Life is not a straight line -- Very platonic love -- Byobu, barely corpuscle -- Terrestrial labors -- Knots -- Viscachas, camels, polonii -- On anodyne things -- Annoyances that disturb Byobu -- Summer -- The sensitive toad -- Among senses and neutrinos -- Epiphanies -- Against the Argive way -- The race -- The inhabitant -- Anguish -- Useless knowledge -- Byobu assailed by imperious egotism -- Dangerous misunderstandings -- Dot the I's -- Social topics or on humor as an abscess -- Byobu and the Yamabushi -- Cerro -- Oral frustrations -- Crossroads -- Unforgivable distraction -- Internal coherence -- Deaf indiscretions -- Seasons -- Byobu and the acceleration of history -- Laziness -- Byobu and the traffic light -- Original thoughts.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction VITALE, IDA Available 33111010779722
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Byobu reveals a rich inner world, one driven by its meticulous attention to our rich outer one.

"a story's existence, even if not well defined or well assigned, even if only in its formative stage, just barely latent, emits vague but urgent emanations."

Byobu's every interaction trembles with possibility and faint menace. A crack in the walls of his house, marring it forever, means he must burn it down. A stoplight asks what the value of obedience is, what hopefulness it contains, and what insensible anarchy it defies. In brief episodes, aphorisms, and moments of spiritual turbulence and gentle scrutiny, reside a wealth of habits, worries, curiosities, pleasures, peculiarities, and efforts to understand.

Representative of the modesty and complexity of Ida Vitale's poetic universe, Byobu flushes the world with meaning and playfully offers another way of inhabiting the every day.

Translated from Spanish.

Originally published: Uruguay : Estuario, [2018].

A story -- Life is not a straight line -- Very platonic love -- Byobu, barely corpuscle -- Terrestrial labors -- Knots -- Viscachas, camels, polonii -- On anodyne things -- Annoyances that disturb Byobu -- Summer -- The sensitive toad -- Among senses and neutrinos -- Epiphanies -- Against the Argive way -- The race -- The inhabitant -- Anguish -- Useless knowledge -- Byobu assailed by imperious egotism -- Dangerous misunderstandings -- Dot the I's -- Social topics or on humor as an abscess -- Byobu and the Yamabushi -- Cerro -- Oral frustrations -- Crossroads -- Unforgivable distraction -- Internal coherence -- Deaf indiscretions -- Seasons -- Byobu and the acceleration of history -- Laziness -- Byobu and the traffic light -- Original thoughts.

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