Out of the Cage by García Lao, Fernanda

Out of the Cage

Out of the Cage opens in 1956, in Argentina, with the freakish death of Aurora Berro, and...
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Author: Fernanda García Lao
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Out of the Cage by García Lao, Fernanda

Out of the Cage

€22,93

Out of the Cage

€22,93
Author: Fernanda García Lao
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Out of the Cage opens in 1956, in Argentina, with the freakish death of Aurora Berro, and descends into a dark philosophical exploration of humanity and mortality. In the midst of her family's celebration of a national holiday, an LP, careening through the air like a "demented boomerang," severs her jugular. Her family-- an agglomeration of perversions, deformities, and obsessions--seems at first not to notice, singing on. Aurora is left behind in a voyeuristic limbo as an omniscient first-person narrator, to observe the depravity of her family and reflect on the farce of her life and human existence.

Fernanda García Lao has been called "the strangest writer of Argentine literature," and in Out of the Cage, she lives up to that distinction. The book is saturated in strangeness, a blend of formal experimentation, eroticism, grotesque theatricality, and dark humor that evokes the absurdist fictions of Witold Gombrowicz and the style of Silvina Ocampo. The result is a macabre and fantastic vaudeville, a tragicomedy, a kind of Dadaist opus against ideas of eternal beauty and fixed identity, against absolute concepts and universality.

Author: Fernanda García Lao
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Published: 02/04/2022
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781646050451

About the Author

Will Vanderhyden is a freelance translator, with an MA in Literary Translation from the University of Rochester. He has translated the work of Carlos Labbé, Rodrigo Fresán, and Fernanda García Lao, among others. His translations have appeared in journals such as Two Lines, The Literary Review, The Scofield, and The Arkansas International. He has received fellowships from the NEA and the Lannan Foundation. His translation of The Invented Part by Rodrigo Fresán won the 2018 Best Translated Book Award.


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