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Title: The Queen of Swords
Author: Jazmina Barrera
ISBN: 9781949641875
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Published: 2025
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 264
Publisher Description: <b>In what was at first meant to be a short essay about the influential Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916-1988), Jazmina Barrera's deep curiosity and exploration give us a singular portrait of a complex life.</b><p></p><p></p>Sifting through the writer's archives at Princeton, Barrera is repeatedly thwarted in her attempt to fully know her subject. Traditional means of research--the correspondence, photos, and books--serve only to complicate and cloud the woman and her work.<i>Who was Elena Garro, really?</i><p></p>She was a writer, a founder of "magical realism", a dancer. A devotee to the tarot and the<i>I Ching</i>. A socialite and activist on behalf of indigenous Mexicans. She was a mother and a lover who repeatedly shook off (and cheated on) her manipulative husband, Nobel-laureate Octavio Paz. And above all, she wrote with simmering anger and glittering imagination.<p></p><i>The Queen of Swords </i>is a portrait of a woman that also serves as an alternative history of Mexico City; a cry-out for justice; and an homage to the unknowable. It transcends mere biography, supplanting something tidy and authoritative for a sprawling experiment in understanding.<p></p>
Author: Jazmina Barrera
ISBN: 9781949641875
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Published: 2025
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 264
Publisher Description: <b>In what was at first meant to be a short essay about the influential Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916-1988), Jazmina Barrera's deep curiosity and exploration give us a singular portrait of a complex life.</b><p></p><p></p>Sifting through the writer's archives at Princeton, Barrera is repeatedly thwarted in her attempt to fully know her subject. Traditional means of research--the correspondence, photos, and books--serve only to complicate and cloud the woman and her work.<i>Who was Elena Garro, really?</i><p></p>She was a writer, a founder of "magical realism", a dancer. A devotee to the tarot and the<i>I Ching</i>. A socialite and activist on behalf of indigenous Mexicans. She was a mother and a lover who repeatedly shook off (and cheated on) her manipulative husband, Nobel-laureate Octavio Paz. And above all, she wrote with simmering anger and glittering imagination.<p></p><i>The Queen of Swords </i>is a portrait of a woman that also serves as an alternative history of Mexico City; a cry-out for justice; and an homage to the unknowable. It transcends mere biography, supplanting something tidy and authoritative for a sprawling experiment in understanding.<p></p>
