Medusa by Martine Desjardins

Medusa by Martine Desjardins

An incendiary new novel based on the myth of Medusa from noted author Martine Desjardins

She's been called Medusa for so long that she's forgotten her real name. She walks with her head down, her face hidden behind her hair to spare others the sight of her Deformities - eyes so horrible they repel women and petrify men. She herself never dares to look in a mirror. Driven from her family home, Medusa is locked up in the Athenæum, an institute for young "malformed" girls, which stands on the shores of a lake infested with jellyfish. In this dismal abyss, where Benefactors indulge in cruel games with their protégées, she gradually discovers the prodigious and formidable faculties of her ocular Sickenings. The day when Medusa finally emerges from her confinement, she sows destruction in her path. But before she can take revenge on the Benefactors who humiliated her, she'll first have to face the treacherous gaze of her nemesis - and the deadly gaze of her own Abominations.

Martine Desjardins's chilling and poetic Medusa is a provocative story of women's body shame and men's body shaming, phallocratic oppression, and the power of femininity - an inversion of the traditional balance of power that throws a light on so-called monstrosity.

Martine Desjardins was born in the town of Mount Royal, Quebec, in 1957. The second child of six, she started writing short stories when she was seventeen. After receiving a bachelor's degree in Russian and Italian studies at the University of Montreal, she went on to complete a master's degree in comparative literature, exploring humour in Dostoevsky's The Devils. She worked as an assistant editor-in-chief at ELLE Quü¾Ž–”¼bec magazine and, for ten years, was book reviewer for L'actualitü¾Ž–”¼, an award-winning French-language current affairs magazine in Canada. Her first novel, Le cercle de Clara, was nominated for the Prix littü¾Ž–”¼raires du Quü¾Ž–”¼bec in 1998. She was awarded the Prix Ringuet for L'ü¾Ž–”¼vocation in 2006, and the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic for Maleficium in 2013. She received the Prix Jacques-Brossard de la science-fiction et du fantastique for Maleficium in 2010, and again for La chambre verte in 2017. Desjardins currently lives in the town of Mount Royal with her fox-terrier Winnie.

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ISBN 13	9781772013856
ISBN 10	1772013854
Titel	Medusa
Autor	Martine Desjardins
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Talon Books,Canada
Erscheinungsjahr	2022-12-22
Seitenanzahl	208
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.