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The Wake
ISBN-13:
9781931896238
ISBN-10:
1931896232
Edition:
1
Author:
Margo Glantz
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
Curbstone Books
Format:
Paperback
124 pages
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9781931896238
ISBN-10:
1931896232
Edition:
1
Author:
Margo Glantz
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
Curbstone Books
Format:
Paperback
124 pages
Summary
The Wake (ISBN-13: 9781931896238 and ISBN-10: 1931896232), written by authors
Margo Glantz, was published by Curbstone Books in 2005.
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Description
Winner of the 2005 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize
"What do I feel?" asks the narrator, Nora García, as she goes back to a Mexican village she has not visited in years to attend the funeral of her ex-husband, a famous pianist who has died of a massive heart attack. This deeply moving novel is the unspoken answer to Nora's self-questioning. "The heart has reasons that reason knows nothing of," Pascal said, and this aphorism of knowing and not knowing is at the core of the novel. Employing motifs of "the heart," modes of music from the tango to Bach, and allusions to poetry, the text is a rich amalgam that reveals a life lived deep within literary culture.
"What do I feel?" asks the narrator, Nora García, as she goes back to a Mexican village she has not visited in years to attend the funeral of her ex-husband, a famous pianist who has died of a massive heart attack. This deeply moving novel is the unspoken answer to Nora's self-questioning. "The heart has reasons that reason knows nothing of," Pascal said, and this aphorism of knowing and not knowing is at the core of the novel. Employing motifs of "the heart," modes of music from the tango to Bach, and allusions to poetry, the text is a rich amalgam that reveals a life lived deep within literary culture.
Like her ex-husband, Nora is a musician, a cellist, and so it is fitting that her novel takes the form of a canon and fugue: phrases circle and repeat, variations are introduced, motifs come and go and intermingle, reflecting a paralysis of the grieving.
The novel moves inexorably toward the burial and the revelation of Nora's complex, emotional reaction to Juan's death. Throughout the novel, Nora is moving in the "wake" of that death, being pulled along by the ceremonies of the funeral, the mass, the burial. A rich, nuanced evocation of states of mind and emotion, The Wake powerfully illuminates Nora's quiet grief and rage.
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