Del Samatar
Auteur de Monster Portraits
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Monster Portraits par Sofia Samatar
Uniquely fun mini-monster portraits from a scholar in West African cultures and her brother, an illustrator.
I have no idea what I just read, but it was a nice, incantatory little trip with these siblings. Liked the illustrations- his tattoo art must be amazing. The swoony publisher's description of a 'breathless journey and ground breaking study" makes it sound portentious, and maybe it is, but my favorite sentences are the ones like this: Sometimes I think work is the answer and sometimes I think it's the enemy. To summarize: an unhappy relationship with labor."
Samatar has teamed up with her brother for this hybrid speculative memoir of small, almost prose-poetry entries in a field guide of a woman's experience. These are not pieces that you can read quickly or easily. They need time to rest and be fed. I have kept this book by my bedside and read one piece at a time over a series of weeks. What I love about these is how personal and yet public they are, how Samatar negotiates the liminal of our understanding of self and the journey therein. This book is a short, but powerful.… (plus d'informations)
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