Die heiligen Orte in den Anden beherbergten einst wertvolle Grabbeigaben. Heute findet man sie in den großen Sammlungen europäischer Museen. Dort wird Gabriela Wiener mit ihrem Erbe konfrontiert: ausgerechnet ihr Ururgroßvater Charles Wiener, ein jüdisch-österreichischer Forscher, erbeutete im 19. Jahrhundert Tausende Artefakte. Als sie der väterlichen Linie ihres Stammbaums nachgeht, stößt sie auf patriarchale Heldenerzählungen: die Legende des bescheidenen Deutschlehrers, der über Nacht zu Indiana Jones wird, aber in Peru Frau und Kind zurücklässt. Und die Parallelbeziehung ihres Vaters, in der dieser mit Vorliebe eine Augenklappe trug. Werden Vorstellungen von Liebe und Lust weitergetragen? – Ausgehend von ihrem Nachnamen wird Gabriela Wiener nicht nur zur Chronistin von Kolonialverbrechen, sondern auch zur Chronistin ihrer selbst. »Die vielleicht mutigste Stimme der neuen literarischen Generation lateinamerikanischer Frauen. Sie hat praktisch jedes heikle Problem erforscht, mit dem sich die heutige Gesellschaft herumschlägt.« The New York Times
'An intimate story from the family archive, a story that is also the infamous history of our continent' Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive'Powerful and searing' Samanta Schweblin, author of Fever DreamA provocative autobiographical novel that reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one woman's family ties to both colonised and coloniserIn an ethnographic museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener is confronted with her unusual inheritance. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artefacts, the spoils of European colonial plunder. As she peers through the glass, she sees sculptures of Indigenous faces that resemble her own - but the man responsible for pillaging them was her own great-great-grandfather, Austrian colonial explorer Charles Wiener. In the wake of her father's death, Gabriela begins delving into all she has inherited from her paternal line. From the brutal trail of racism and theft that Charles left behind to revelations of her father's infidelity, she traces a legacy of abandonment, jealousy and colonial violence, in turn reframing her own struggles with desire, love and race. Seeking relief from these personal and historical wounds, Gabriela turns to the body and desire as sources of both constraint and potential freedom. Blending personal, historical and fictional writing, Undiscovered tells of a search for identity beyond the old stories of patriarchs and plunder. Subversive, intimate and fiercely irreverent, it builds to a powerful call for decolonization.
Almadia Ediciones SA Promotora de Inversion de Capital
7 Septembre 2022
9786078851041
En el décimo aniversario de su edición original, Mejor que ficción. Crónicas ejemplares regresa a las librerías con un nuevo prólogo y con nuevos textos. Refuerza así su condición de antología de referencia del periodismo narrativo en nuestra lengua, al tiempo que se puede leer como una vuelta al mundo y como un catálogo de estrategias y estilos para contar la difícil realidad de este cambio de siglo. El libro contiene crónicas de Juan Villoro, Leila Guerriero, Sabrina Duque, Jordi Costa, Alberto Fuguet, Alberto Salcedo Ramos, Eileen Truax, Juan Pablo Meneses, Juanita León, Cristian Alarcón, Marcela Turati, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Maye Primera, María Moreno, Julio Villanueva Chang, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Fabrizio Mejía Madrid, Cristina Rivera Garza, Jaime Bedoya, Rodrigo Fresán, Mónica Baró, Guillem Martínez, Gabriela Wiener, Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá y Martín Caparrós. Incluye además un extenso diccionario de cronistas iberoamericanos, con centenares de invitaciones a seguir leyendo.
Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2020From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind Sexographies comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood that delves headlong into our fraught fascination with human reproduction.Women play all the time with the great power that's been conferred upon us: it's fun to think about reproducing. Or not reproducing. Or walking around in a sweet little dress with a round belly underneath that will turn into a baby to cuddle and spoil. When you're fifteen, the idea is fascinating, it attracts you like a piece of chocolate cake. When you're thirty, the possibility attracts you like an abyss.Gabriela Wiener is not one to shy away from unpleasant truths or to balk at a challenge. She began her writing career by infiltrating Peru's most dangerous prison, going all in at swingers clubs, ingesting ayahuasca in the Amazon jungle. So at 30, when she gets unexpectedly pregnant, she looks forward to the experience the way a mountain climber approaches a precipitous peak.With a scientist's curiosity and a libertine's unbridled imagination, Wiener hungrily devours every scrap of information and misinformation she encounters during the nine months of her pregnancy. She ponders how pleasure and pain always have something to do with things entering or exiting your body. She laments that manuals for pregnant women don't prepare you for ambushes of lust or that morning sickness is like waking up with a hangover and a guilty conscience all at once. And she tries to navigate the infinity of choices and contradictory demands a pregnant woman confronts, each one amplified to a life-and-death decision.While pregnant women are still placed on pedestals, or used as political battlegrounds, or made into passive objects of study, Gabriela Wiener defies definition. With unguarded humor and breathtaking directness, Nine Moons questions the dogmas, upends the stereotypes, and embraces all the terror, beauty, and paradoxes of the propagation of the species.
“No other writer in the Spanish-speaking world is as fiercely independent and thoroughly irreverent as Gabriela Wiener. Constantly testing the limits of genre and gender, Wiener’s work … has bravely unveiled truths some may prefer remain concealed about a range of topics, from the daily life of polymorphous desire to the tiring labor of maternity.” —Cristina Rivera Garza, author of The Iliac CrestIn fierce and sumptuous first-person accounts, renowned Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener records infiltrating the most dangerous Peruvian prison, participating in sexual exchanges in swingers clubs, traveling the dark paths of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris in the company of transvestites and prostitutes, undergoing a complicated process of egg donation, and participating in a ritual of ayahuasca ingestion in the Amazon jungle—all while taking us on inward journeys that explore immigration, maternity, fear of death, ugliness, and threesomes. Fortunately, our eagle-eyed voyeur emerges from her narrative forays unscathed and ready to take on the kinks, obsessions, and messiness of our lives. Sexographies is an eye-opening, kamikaze journey across the contours of the human body and mind.
«Soy el pecado que te dio nueva ilusión en el amor.Soy lo prohibido».Dino Ramos y Roberto Cantoral¿Por qué dos amigas no pueden tirar, por qué no tirar con los maridos o las mujeres de los amigos, por qué no desear a quien no nos desea, por qué no amar y dejarse amar sin condiciones, por qué no enamorar sin estar enamorado, por qué no dormir sin tirar, por qué no tirar sin dormir, por qué no tener una pareja no romántica o no sexual, por qué no amar a más de una persona? Ya lo hacemos, ahora dejémoslo ser.Gabriela Wiener escribe en primera persona esta pieza teatral en forma de retrato familiar poliamoroso atravesado por los celos, el frenesí y, sobre todo, el amor a tres devenido en cinco.A la obra le acompañan en este volumen una colección de paratextos o relatos en los que desfilan las grandes obsesiones de su obra: la maternidad, la pasión, las rupturas y la mirada racista de su país de adopción. La autora se desnuda en estas páginas para dejarnos ver las marcas que dejó sobre su piel su esfuerzo para construir otro modelo de amor y de familia, en el que casi fueron felices.«Cómo alivia saber que hay otras maneras, tantas maneras para el amor. Qué locura enamorarme yo de ti es un balazo de agua fresca: sincero, fuerte y conmovedor».Samanta Schweblin
Wiener has rescued an intimate story from the family archive, a story that is also the infamous history of our continent, with her trademark intelligence and irreverent humor. Her prose, sober and forward, is fresh air; her view allows us to be testimonies of Latin Americas cycles of plundering and looting.Valeria Luiselli, author of The Lost Children Archive and Tell Me How It EndsAn award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer delivers her stunning English breakthrough, blending fact and fiction in an autobiographical novel that faces the legacy of colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer.Alone in a museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener finds herself confronted by her complicated family heritage. Visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, she peers at countless sculptures of Indigenous faces each nearly identical to her own and recognizes herself in them but the man responsible for pillaging them was her own great-great-grandfather, Austrian colonial explorer Charles Wiener. Wieners grand contribution to history: the near rediscovery of Machu Picchu, nearly 4,000 plundered artifacts, a book about Peru, and a bastard child.In the wake of her father's death, Gabriela begins to unpack the legacy that is her birthright. From the brutal racism she encounters in her ancestor Charles's book to her father's infidelity, she traces a cycle of abandonment, jealousy and colonial violence, in turn reframing her own personal struggles with desire, love, and race. As she explores the history of two continents, her investigation brings her closer and closer to the more intimate realm where both colonizer and colonized ultimately converge the body and her own desire to free it. Guided by a penetrating eye and fearsome wit, Undiscovered embarks the reader on a quest to pick up the pieces of something shattered long ago in the hopes of making it whole once again.Probing wounds both personal and historical, Undiscovered is a culminating labor for our age, an earnest attempt to decolonize ones own desire.Translated by Julia Sanches
Mejor que ficción ; Crónicas ejemplares
