Certificate of Absence (Texas Pan American Series) - Softcover
The novel centers around a woman writing in a small room. As she writes, remembering a past relationship and anticipating a future one, the room becomes a repository for nostalgia, violence, and desire, a space in which writing and remembering become life-sustaining ceremonies. The narrator reflects on the power of love to both shelter and destroy. She meditates on the act of writing, specifically on writing as a woman, in a voice that goes against the grain of established, canonical voices.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Review:
Molloy's first novel is something special. Her narrator is a writer and her writing is therapy. Through the act of creating literature, she deals with the loves and pains of her life: father, mother, lovers and friends. It is a rare writer who can cloister her fiction in introspection and still keep up a pace that exercises a reader ...Molloy pulls this off.
About the Author:
Sylvia Molloy is Professor of Spanish at Yale University. Daniel Balderston is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherUniversity of Texas Press
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0292711247
- ISBN 13 9780292711242
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages131
- Rating
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
£ 26.70
Shipping:
£ 2.08
Within U.S.A.
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Seller Image
Certificate of Absence
Published by
University of Texas Press
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0292711247
ISBN 13: 9780292711242
New
Softcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 654061-n
Buy New
£ 26.70
Convert currency
Stock Image
Certificate of Absence Texas Pan American Series
Published by
University of Texas Press
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0292711247
ISBN 13: 9780292711242
New
PAP
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # DS-9780292711242
Buy New
£ 28.84
Convert currency
Stock Image
Certificate of Absence (Texas Pan American Series) (Classicos/Clasicos)
Published by
University of Texas Press 1989-09-01
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0292711247
ISBN 13: 9780292711242
New
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 6666-LBR-9780292711242
Buy New
£ 20.71
Convert currency
Stock Image
Certificate of Absence
Published by
Univ of Texas Pr
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0292711247
ISBN 13: 9780292711242
New
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 132 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __0292711247
Buy New
£ 26.65
Convert currency
Seller Image
Certificate of Absence
Published by
University of Texas Press
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0292711247
ISBN 13: 9780292711242
New
Softcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 654061-n
Buy New
£ 23.19
Convert currency
Stock Image
Certificate of Absence
Published by
University of Texas Press
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0292711247
ISBN 13: 9780292711242
New
Paperback / softback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Seller Inventory # B9780292711242
Buy New
£ 31.36
Convert currency
Stock Image
Certificate of Absence Texas Pan American Series
Published by
University of Texas Press
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0292711247
ISBN 13: 9780292711242
New
PAP
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # DS-9780292711242
Buy New
£ 25.48
Convert currency
Seller Image
Certificate of Absence
Published by
UNIV OF TEXAS PR Sep 1989
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0292711247
ISBN 13: 9780292711242
New
Taschenbuch
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Originally published in 1981 as En breve cárcel, Certificate of Absence is the first novel of the Argentinian scholar-critic Sylvia Molloy. Innovative in its treatment of women's relationships and in its assertion of woman's right to author her own text, the novel has won wide approval in Latin America and the United States. The novel centers around a woman writing in a small room. As she writes, remembering a past relationship and anticipating a future one, the room becomes a repository for nostalgia, violence, and desire, a space in which writing and remembering become life-sustaining ceremonies. The narrator reflects on the power of love to both shelter and destroy. She meditates on the act of writing, specifically on writing as a woman, in a voice that goes against the grain of established, canonical voices. Latin American male writers are prone to self-portrayal in their texts. Certifcate of Absence is one of the few novels by Latin American women that successfully use this technique to open new windows on women's experiences. Seller Inventory # 9780292711242
Buy New
£ 27.43
Convert currency
Stock Image
CERTIFICATE OF ABSENCE (TEXAS PA
Published by
University of Texas Press
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0292711247
ISBN 13: 9780292711242
New
Softcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.43. Seller Inventory # Q-0292711247
Buy New
£ 61.40
Convert currency
Seller Image
Certificate of Absence
Published by
UNIV OF TEXAS PR
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0292711247
ISBN 13: 9780292711242
New
Softcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Originally published in 1981 as En breve carcel, Certificate of Absence is the first novel of the Argentinian scholar-critic Sylvia Molloy it is innovative in its treatment of women s relationships and in its assertion of woman s right to author her own. Seller Inventory # 516143318
Buy New
£ 23.92
Convert currency