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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

door Carmen Maria Machado

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Fiction. Literature. Short Stories. In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella "Especially Heinous," Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for e… (meer)
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I have actually quite ambivalent feelings about this book, but there's parts that I think are gonna stick with me for quite a while. It's very much a book of ghosts, of isolated (alienated?) women, a book that on paper I'd adore, but something about the execution here didn't always quite click for me. I liked, in some way or another, almost all the stories, but "The Husband Stitch" left me cold.
Also, it is weird/interesting/affirming to read the work of someone who, I think, has an unusually similar frame of reference, literarily at least, to my own. Like, gay Shirley Jackson fans with feelings about being fat girls unite. ( )
  localgayangel | Mar 5, 2024 |
“Especially Heinous” is probably the most compelling piece of fiction I’ve read all year.
  unsurefooted | Feb 25, 2024 |
I’ve heard so many people raving about this lately that I was excepting to love it- but very honestly this just wasn’t for me, almost in any way. To be blunt: I actually felt nauseous reading some of the stories. Not because of any particular graphic content, but because I genuinely could NOT understand what I was reading, or because I felt like I was losing my mind and reading the same story over and over again. While there are smatterings here and there of originality (like the twist of the classic ribbon story, or the women fading and becoming parts of garments) I was vastly underwhelmed by the plots, and at other times felt as if Machado had written down bizarre dream she had had and then edited nothing- “Mothers” and “Especially Heinous” felt like outright fever dreams to me.

I think how much a reader enjoys this book is going to be a hugely personal experience and going to lean heavily on personal tastes and aesthetics. I know, I know, that’s the case with like, ALL books, but this is just a very specific sort of book. While the overall premise of “stories that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their body” sort of hints at something many women will be able to relate to, there is obviously no one singular and universal experience of being a woman, so in turn there are clearly readers who won’t jive with this (myself included).
So while I admire the risks taken in “Her Body”, it’s not a book I can say I liked, or would feel comfortable recommending to many people. ( )
  deborahee | Feb 23, 2024 |
Creepy and satisfying. ( )
  mslibrarynerd | Jan 13, 2024 |
Ho apprezzato tantissimo questo libro, tanto che In The Dream House, lavoro successivo di Machado uscito il mese scorso, è già nella mia TBR. Il suo corpo e altre feste mi ha colpito sia per l’originalità con la quale vengono trattate le tematiche sia per la varietà di generi, ma anche per lo stile di Machado.

La prospettiva femminista fa da padrona nei racconti dell’autrice, che è stata molto abile nel tradurla in sensazioni e in simboli, quasi archetipici, tipici delle storie tramandate di madre in figlia. Oltre a questo, c’è un filo di disagio, quel disagio che ci cresce dentro quando siamo davanti a qualcosa di misterioso ma allo stesso tempo molto familiare. Perturbante, insomma.

E cosa c’è di più perturbante della nostra femminilità quotidiana distorta da un ambiente patriarcale? La viviamo ogni giorno, ma allo stesso tempo siamo lontane dalla sua fonte, dalle storie che ci raccontano libere dallo sguardo maschile, dalla mitologia che ci spiega le nostre origini. Autrici come Machado, secondo me, ci stanno ridando le nostre storie e le nostre prospettive.

Il suo corpo e altre feste è anche un coacervo di generi (realismo magico horror, fantascienza), tutti utilizzati per esplorare zone oscure e poco frequentate e conditi con l’abilità della contastorie capace di legarti al suo racconto e portarti con sé. Machado è il tipo di scrittrice in grado di lasciarti senza fiato davanti alla sua potenza narrativa: ci sono dei passaggi che con una manciata di parole riescono ad andare così in profondità da fare male.

Spero davvero tanto che vi lascerete prendere da Il suo corpo e altre feste: vi consiglio di prepararvi a una lunga sessione di lettura, perché Machado non vi lascerà andare facilmente. ( )
  lasiepedimore | Jan 12, 2024 |
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AuteursnaamRolType auteurWerk?Status
Machado, Carmen Mariaprimaire auteuralle editiesbevestigd
Callís, Maria CabreraVertalerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Glyder, KimberlyOmslagontwerperSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Landon, AmyVertellerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Rodríguez, Laura SalasVertalerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd

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My body is a haunted
house that I am lost in.
There are no doors but there are knives
and a hundred windows.

-Jacqui Germain
god should have made girls lethal
when he made monsters of men.

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REINALDO PILAR MACHADO GORRIN,
quien me contó mis primeros cuentos, y sigue siendo mi favorito

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Table of Contents: The husband stitch -- Inventory -- Mothers -- Especially heinous: 272 views of Law and Order: SVU -- Real women have bodies -- Eight bites -- The resident -- Difficult at parties
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Fiction. Literature. Short Stories. In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella "Especially Heinous," Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for e

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