Purity
by Ruth Miguel Franco
Description
"Home: the traveller flees from one and seeks it in everything. Some call 'home' a dish with familiar flavours, or a hot tea, or a mission, or found beauty. Those of us who seek purity, on the other hand, keep silent and grit our teeth".
A physical, emotional and cultural journey through the surroundings of a city besieged by imposing mountains. It is also the chronicle of a foretold end: that of a winter in Innsbruck.
After hours on trains and planes, Ruth Miguel Franco closes the door of the of her room and bolts it. Then, she wanders around her new temporary home in search of flat landscapes and washed-out buildings.
"Nature doesn't move me. I generally find it boring or threatening. It makes me uncomfortable. I only look for the work of man; it doesn't move me either, but in front of it I can think".
The author, with a brutally honest voice, explores the surroundings of a city that was bombed in more than twenty occasions in less than a year and a half. With echoes of W. G. Sebald and his astonishment at the lack of it in Germany's historical memory, Purity offers us an uncomfortable but necessary journey.
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Author Biography
Ruth Miguel Franco (León, 1979) has published the collections of poems La muerte y los hermanos (Adonáis Prize runner-up, 2011) and Guerra (Huerga & Fierro, 2021), as well as the collection of essays Unos cuerpos (Sloper, 2018). She has participated in the translation of several works (Louise Glück, Pascal Quignard, Mario Luzi). She is currently a lecturer at the Universitat de les Illes Balears.
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- Publisher Ediciones Menguantes
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9788494853456
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- FormatPaperback
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleLa pureza
- Copyright Year2021
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