Cristina Peri Rossi is one of the most acclaimed and personal voices in Hispanic letters. This volume of short stories, Panic Signs, first published in 1970 in Montevideo, Uruguay, presages the atrocities that would come with dictatorship in 1972. The premonitory dimension is one of the striking characteristics in all the stories - a sense of impending catastrophe, sometimes hallucinatory and often graphic, leads us to undetermined places where the horrors of censorship, torture, and human bondage take place. At the same time, the stories expose the shackles that incapacitate us and deny us…mehr
Cristina Peri Rossi is one of the most acclaimed and personal voices in Hispanic letters. This volume of short stories, Panic Signs, first published in 1970 in Montevideo, Uruguay, presages the atrocities that would come with dictatorship in 1972. The premonitory dimension is one of the striking characteristics in all the stories - a sense of impending catastrophe, sometimes hallucinatory and often graphic, leads us to undetermined places where the horrors of censorship, torture, and human bondage take place. At the same time, the stories expose the shackles that incapacitate us and deny us the acceptance of ourselves. This elegy for freedom mourns the loss of liberty and justice while seducing us into questioning what we hold true. The metaphorical procession of images, and the craftsmanship of a narrative that continually engage us, motivate us to explore our own uncertainties and values, and offer an unquestionable opportunity to reassess today's global conditions. Peri Rossi succeeds in creating a whirlwind of despair and self-discovery, impelling us to assess our own panic signs and so avoid being entrapped by those who hold power over us. The translation of this powerful text will help English-speaking readers attain a more profound understanding of the complexities of Latin America's cultural and socio-political issues.
Cristina Peri Rossi was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1941 and started her literary career in 1963 with the publication of her collection of short stories: Viviendo. She was a professor of comparative literature, a translator, and a journalist. In 1972, after the military coup in Uruguay, she emigrated to Spain where she lives and writes today. Her first narrative publications (El libro de mis primos, 1969; Indicios pánicos, 1970) combined symbolism with irony, questioning social reality and patriarchal structures. From 1972 through to the early 1980s, her work was banned in Uruguay. Cristina Peri Rossi's spirit of innovation, her rebelliousness, and her disregard for the conventions of society have made her an emblematic personality of the 1970s. This collection of short stories was originally published as Indicios pánicos in 1970 by Editorial Nuestra América.
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Table of Contents for Panic Signs by Cristina Peri Rossi, translated by Merceds Rowinsky-Geurts and Angelo A. Borrás Preface Prologue 1. I am very interested in botany 2. I live in a country of old people 3. I have never been in Vermont 4. We have not gone to the moon 5. For more than twenty-five years 6. Sometimes my mother consoles me 7. I spent many years caressing statue 8. I always imagine 9. She brought me passionate presents 10. She hands me the scarf 11. I contribute to the general racket 12. She had been brought from Peru 13. I have a tiny apartment 14. She has given me happiness 15. Dialogue with the Writer 16. For many years I lived 17. When I was mature enough 18. Hell is bloody birds 19. "You are very beautiful" 20. I will till no more 21. In the ghetto of my womb 22. I dreamt that I was 23. Desertion 24. What is happening? 25. As I was walking along 26. The Acrobats 27. Besieged 28. The minister called me 29. "What are you doing?" 30. Disobedience and the Bear Hunt 31. The Statue 32. I possessed her when I was eight 33. Mamá's Farewell 34. I started to feel your absence 35. At the corner bar 36. When the bishops rebelled 37. A Great Family 38. Such apparent senselessness 39. I was enjoying an ice cream cone 40. Selene I 41. Selene II 42. I have come by train 43. Urgent Messages for Navigators 44. The Social Contract 45. The Stampede 46. The Hero Other books by Cristina Peri Rossi
Table of Contents for Panic Signs by Cristina Peri Rossi, translated by Merceds Rowinsky-Geurts and Angelo A. Borrás Preface Prologue 1. I am very interested in botany 2. I live in a country of old people 3. I have never been in Vermont 4. We have not gone to the moon 5. For more than twenty-five years 6. Sometimes my mother consoles me 7. I spent many years caressing statue 8. I always imagine 9. She brought me passionate presents 10. She hands me the scarf 11. I contribute to the general racket 12. She had been brought from Peru 13. I have a tiny apartment 14. She has given me happiness 15. Dialogue with the Writer 16. For many years I lived 17. When I was mature enough 18. Hell is bloody birds 19. "You are very beautiful" 20. I will till no more 21. In the ghetto of my womb 22. I dreamt that I was 23. Desertion 24. What is happening? 25. As I was walking along 26. The Acrobats 27. Besieged 28. The minister called me 29. "What are you doing?" 30. Disobedience and the Bear Hunt 31. The Statue 32. I possessed her when I was eight 33. Mamá's Farewell 34. I started to feel your absence 35. At the corner bar 36. When the bishops rebelled 37. A Great Family 38. Such apparent senselessness 39. I was enjoying an ice cream cone 40. Selene I 41. Selene II 42. I have come by train 43. Urgent Messages for Navigators 44. The Social Contract 45. The Stampede 46. The Hero Other books by Cristina Peri Rossi
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