Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories
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Guadalupe Nettel / 瓜达卢佩·内特尔 译者: Suzanne Jill Levine
简介
Bezoar is a personal reflection on beauty, the beauty of anomaly.
作者采访:
https://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/translatingwomen/2020/08/24/interview-with-guadalupe-nettel/
-I’ve always felt drawn to uncommon people. For me, monsters are the absolute incarnation of beauty in its most authentic and most unpredictable form: brave and fragile beings who – whether voluntarily or involuntarily – oppose conventional models. But I didn’t choose characters that are completely out of the ordinary. Rather, I wanted to shine a light on compulsions and obsessions, the perverse tics and characteristics of ordinary people, the people we come across every day, ourselves even. We all have some aspect of our personality that we’d like to hide at any cost. As William Shakespeare said: “We renounce what we are to be what we hope to be.” However, I’m convinced that this thing that we try so hard to keep hidden is the source of our true beauty.
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