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Stag Dance de Torrey Peters

Stag Dance

Autor Torrey Peters
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 mar 2026

Ca și Detransition, Baby, noul volum semnat de Torrey Peters explorează mecanismele intime ale identității de gen și ale dorinței, dar dintr-o perspectivă mult mai experimentală și vastă din punct de vedere istoric. Dacă în romanul său de debut autoarea se concentra pe complexitatea relațiilor urbane contemporane, în Stag Dance suntem transportați într-un quartet de narațiuni care sfidează timpul și spațiul. Apreciem modul în care volumul pendulează între realismul crud și o formă de mitologie modernă, oferind o privire provocatoare asupra modului în care ne construim sinele în fața rezistenței sociale.

Subliniem forța primei povestiri, unde, în inima unei păduri, un grup de tăietori de lemne organizează un dans de iarnă în care bărbații se costumează în femei, declanșând o explorare viscerală a masculinității și a trădării. Această ancoră istorică este balansată de scenarii contemporane: o apocalipsă a genului declanșată de o fostă iubită sau dilemele morale dintr-un weekend în Las Vegas. Structura fragmentată a cărții, îmbogățită de cele patru ilustrații de capitol, permite o incursiune în „marginile aspre ale dorinței”, un teritoriu pe care Torrey Peters îl stăpânește cu o precizie chirurgicală.

În contextul operei sale, Stag Dance reprezintă o evoluție estetică. Dacă Detransition, Baby a stabilit vocea autoarei ca fiind una dintre cele mai relevante în literatura trans actuală, acest nou titlu demonstrează o versatilitate stilistică remarcabilă. Tonul este acid, pe alocuri amuzant, dar întotdeauna pătrunzător, evitând clișeele narative în favoarea unei onestități brutale despre ceea ce înseamnă să te descoperi pe tine însuți în cele mai neașteptate circumstanțe.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780593446355
ISBN-10: 0593446356
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 128 x 202 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Random House

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Stag Dance cititorilor care caută o proză scurtă densă, ce refuză răspunsurile simple. Este o lectură pentru cei care au apreciat profunzimea psihologică din Detransition, Baby și doresc să exploreze teme precum identitatea și apartenența prin lentila unor epoci și contexte diferite. Câștigați o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care dorința modelează tranziția, totul într-un stil literar provocator și plin de spirit.

Despre autor

Torrey Peters este o voce centrală a literaturii contemporane, cunoscută la nivel internațional pentru romanul său de debut, Detransition, Baby, care a fost inclus pe lista lungă pentru Women's Prize for Fiction în 2021 — o premieră pentru o autoare transsexuală. Opera sa se distinge prin analiza nuanțată a comunității trans, explorând teme precum maternitatea, parteneriatul și identitatea cu un umor tăios și o lipsă totală de sentimentalism. Prin Stag Dance, publicat la editura Profile sub amprenta Serpent's Tail, Peters își consolidează reputația de inovator al formelor narative.

Notă biografică

Torrey Peters' first novel, Detransition, Baby, won the PEN/ Hemingway Award 2022 and was shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book. A Times Top Ten bestseller, it was longlisted for the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction. Her second book, Stag Dance, was a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.

Descriere scurtă

**The irresistible follow-up to the hit debut novel Detransition, Baby**A BOOK TO WATCH IN 2025 IN THE GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, ROLLING STONES AND THE BBC'Adventurous, mind-expanding and provocative' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Unlike anything I'd ever read ... I want it a million times over, I want it in as many ways as I can consume' YAEL VAN DER WOUDEN, Women's Prize-winning author of The Safekeep'As innovative, insightful, funny, and confronting as we've come to expect from Peters' work' INDEPENDENT, Best Books to Look Out for in 2025'A shining talent' STYLIST Best Books of 2025'Boy did I love this. Hot, heartbreaking and thrillingly victorious' MIRANDA JULY 'Potent and surprising and takes no prisoners' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO 'Spellbinding. With pathos and wit, Peters explores characters on the brink of self-discovery' BRIT BENNETTDeep in the forest, a group of restless lumberjacks working an illegal logging outfit plan a winter dance that some will volunteer to attend as women; the broadest, strongest axeman finds himself caught in a rivalry with a pretty, young jack that culminates in jealousy, betrayal and an astonishing spectacle of transition. Meanwhile, in other times and places, the gender apocalypse is brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend; an illicit boarding-school romance surfaces intrigue and cruelty; and a Las Vegas party weekend turns dark when a young crossdresser must choose between a thrilling mystery man or a veteran trans woman offering unglamorous sisterhood.In this quartet of tales, Torrey Peters' keen eye for the rough edges of desire reveals fresh possibilities. Acidly funny, boldly inventive and breathtaking in scope, Stag Dance provokes and unsettles, inspires and delights.

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Boy, did I love this. Hot, heartbreaking and thrillingly victorious
The stories in Stag Dance are potent and surprising and take no prisoners
A great Torrey Peters story feels like punching yourself in the face, laughing at the bleeding bitch in the mirror and then shamefacedly realizing you're aroused by the blood on your lips. Stag Dance will leave you bruised, broken and wanting more
The pieces are meticulously crafted; especially Stag Dance, with its deft pacing and almost operatic denouement ... Peters seems to delight in complicating liberal identity politics, refusing ever to sanitise her work or narrow her focus, and glorying in some truly rollicking prose
Spellbinding. With pathos and wit, Peters explores characters who find themselves on the brink of self-discovery while also grappling with the challenge and promise of community. I loved this book
Moves nimbly with vivid characters ever-exploring gender and connection
The highly anticipated new book from the bestselling author of Detransition, Baby is finally here and fans will not be disappointed. These diverse tales are all united in their nuanced exploration of trans identity and the author's distinctive, razor-sharp prose. Intense, funny and thought-provoking
Torrey Peters is truly a writer like no other. In Stag Dance, she weaves astonishing connectionsbetween nature and violence, masculinity and vulnerability, womanhood and constraint, love and betrayals
A brilliant literary kaleidoscope. Peters shatters the familiar in four bold and imaginative tales, each powerful enough to reshape our understanding of transness and where we find it
Torrey Peters is a holy, dreadful storyteller, her words divine and her characters brutally real, her talent awe-inspiring, her vision immense. Her writing tears your guts out. It leaves you gasping. This is fiction that makes you drop to your knees - fiction at its very best
This is what I want from fiction. It starts at a place of real vulnerability, goes all the way down its own rabbit hole, and ends up potent and strange
Unlike anything I'd ever read ... I want it a million times over, I want it in as many ways as I can consume'
Utterly original and will keep you captivated with its voice, energy and wit
I devoured these four tales with obsessive speed. Peters writes about 'the other' in such fresh, dark ink, without apology and with the wickedest tongue
Torrey Peters deals with desire in its all forms - every story is a demand for liberation
Electrifying ... The funny yet heart-wrenching title novella, set sometime during the primacy of steam engines and written in the style of a tall tale, may be Peters' best work yet ... Peters explores her characters' conundrums with striking honesty, revealing how they're bound by indecision and insecurities from finding happiness, and she exhibits spectacular flexibility with language and form. It's a marvel
Peters' fizzy prose throughout is both insightful and cuttingly funny
The follow up to Peters' 2021 megahit novel Detransition, Baby comes with high expectation - and delivers
Original and utterly compelling ... A testament to Peter's writing and, although the narratives are a world away from Detransition, Baby, it's evident that her writing and talents have been building since her debut, which is an absolute pleasure to read.
Peters' writing truly defies pigeonholing ... A moving portrait of different aspects of trans culture
Blending sharp wit with emotional depth ... It is provocative, educational and entertaining all at once. I highly recommend it
Peters's characterization shines
Peters shows us what questioning your gender can mean , and the possible range of attendant emotions: shame, lust, solidarity, jealousy. Above all, she writes with flair about how all these feelings can coexist, and how quickly one can flow into another
Precise, original, funny and fearless ... everything in Stag Dance feels genuinely fresh
Deliciously filthy ... Peters unravels the glorious, aching euphoria of giving in to yourself
Torrey Peters is often describing something that has never been described before and it's never something minor, it's something massive that has been missing from our understanding and enjoyment of the world. Stag Dance is hot, heartbreaking and thrillingly victorious
The stories in Stag Dance are potent and surprising and take no prisoners. How exquisitely Peters writes about the way we move towards ourselves - with the clarity of desire and the agony of resistance