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Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce and the impulse not to, and the inexplicable connection that can bind, eerily, two beings together. Each Nettel tale creates, with tightly wound narrative tension, a space wherein her characters feel excruciatingly human, exploring how the wounds we incur in life manifest themselves within us,…mehr

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Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce and the impulse not to, and the inexplicable connection that can bind, eerily, two beings together. Each Nettel tale creates, with tightly wound narrative tension, a space wherein her characters feel excruciatingly human, exploring how the wounds we incur in life manifest themselves within us, clandestinely, irrevocably, both unseen and overtly. In a precise writing style that is both subtle and spellbinding, Nettel renders the ordinary unsettling, and the grotesque exquisite. Natural Histories is the winner of the 3rd Ribera del Duero International Award for Short Narratives, an important Spanish literature prize.
Autorenporträt
Guadalupe Nettel (Ciudad de México, 1973) es doctora en ciencias del lenguaje por la EHESS de París. Ha publicado tres libros de cuentos: Juegos de artificio, Les Jours fossiles, Pétalos y otras historias incómodas y dos novelas El huésped (Finalista del premio Herralde) y El cuerpo en que nací. Ha sido traducida al francés, holandés, alemán, inglés, portugués, italiano y sueco, entre otras lenguas. Ha obtenido varios premios como el Premio Nacional de cuento Gilberto Owen, el Prix Radio France International para países no francófonos, el Premio Antonin Artaud y el Premio Anna Seghers. Es becaria del Sistema Mexicano de Creadores de Arte y colabora regularmente con diversas revistas literarias de España, Francia, Canadá y América Latina.