{"product_id":"solitaire-of-love-9780822325406","title":"Solitaire of Love","description":"\u003ci\u003eSolitaire of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, an achingly lyrical novel by internationally acclaimed Latin American writer Cristina Peri Rossi, explores the sense of emotional exile that sexual passion can evoke. Only the fourth book of Peri Rossi's to be translated into English-the others are \u003ci\u003eThe Ship of Fools, A Forbidden Passion, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDostoevsky's Last Night\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003eSolitaire of Love\u003c\/i\u003e showcases the mesmerizingly rhythmic language that has become the trademark of this award-winning and prolific author of novels, essay collections, poetry, and short stories.\u003cbr\u003eTracing the course of a relationship as it evolves into uncompromising self-destruction, the narrator of \u003ci\u003eSolitaire of Love\u003c\/i\u003e becomes addicted to his own passion and to the body of his beloved. Erotic, romantic love becomes bewitchment, producing a heightened state where time is measured in the rhythms of a chosen body and pride becomes subservient to obsession. The specifics of this other body trump any claim to ordinary existence for the narrator, as sex becomes a kind of idolatrous slavery and love becomes a mechanism for self-immolation. As in Peri Rossi's other works, an ambiguous sense of gender and sexuality arise from her uniquely experimental prose and mystically erotic logic. Language is subsumed into this process as a way to bear witness, to transfix and capture the love object. The limbo of obsession, as described by Peri Rossi, creates an infantilizing brand of loneliness, broken by flashes of joy, insight, fury, and fear.\u003cbr\u003eThis novel was originally published in Spanish in 1988.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cristina Peri Rossi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.27h x 5.39w x 0.38d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822325406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/07\/2000 pg. 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2000 pg. 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/04\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCristina Peri Rossi was born in Uruguay in 1941. At the age of 31, her political activism prompted her to flee to Spain, where she has since remained. The author of twenty books--including \u003ci\u003eDostoevsky's Last Night\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Forbidden Passion\u003c\/i\u003e--Peri Rossi was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim grant for fiction in 1994 and the City of Barcelona Prize for the best book of Spanish poetry in 1991. Her works have been translated into a dozen languages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert S. Rudder is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Literature of Spain in English Translation: A Biography. \u003c\/i\u003eGloria Arjona has previously translated two books with Rudder, \u003ci\u003eNazarin\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCity of Kings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40495479914611,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":36.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ae4d8e77-2aea-4668-9a40-a9c099e2ddd0.jpg?v=1665061543","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/solitaire-of-love-9780822325406","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}