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Skin

Autor Sergio Del Molino Traducere de Thomas Bunstead
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 oct 2021
Skin is the border of our body and, as such, it is that through which we relate to others but also what separates us from them. Through skin, we speak: when we display it, when we tan it, when we tattoo it, or when we mute it by covering it with clothes. Skin exhibits social relationships, displays power and the effects of power, explains many things about who we are, how others perceive us and how we exist in the world. And when it gets sick, it turns us into monsters. In Skin, Sergio del Molino speaks of these monsters in history and literature, whose lives have been tormented by bad skin: Stalin secretly taking a bath in his dacha, Pablo Escobar getting up late and shutting himself in the shower, Cyndi Lauper performing a commercial for a medicine promising relief from skin disease, John Updike sunburned in the Caribbean, Nabokov writing to his wife from exile, 'Everything would be fine, if it weren't for the damned skin.' As a psoriasis sufferer, Sergio del Molino includes himself in this gallery of monsters through whose stories he delves into the mysteries of skin. What is for some a badge of pride and for others a source of anguish and shame, skin speaks of us and for us when we don't speak with words.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781509547852
ISBN-10: 1509547851
Pagini: 220
Dimensiuni: 144 x 212 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Sergio del Molino is one of Spain's leading writers of fiction and nonfiction. His numerous books include La España vacía, La hora violeta and Lo que a nadie le importa.

Cuprins

Gratitudes and Debts Witches Don't Egg-sist The Devil Card A Swimming Pool in Sochi The Magic Mountain The Prettiest Girl in Sandy Ground A Very Brief History of Racism The Middle Ages of The Skin When the Working Day is Done Conversations With a Stone King The Boss's Comb My Greek Impure Butterfly in Basque Habit