The City of Marvels by Eduardo Mendoza
While social structures and relations effect how we give meaning to spaces, our comprehension of spaces effects how we give meaning to what is social. We wanted to look into how women stroll through spaces, what roles and functions they undertake, how they give meaning to their engagement with spaces, and how, with their existence, they become one with spaces. We started this journey looking for clues as to how women, as they played their parts, re-interpreted those scripts written by sovereign powers, how they became stars, how they transformed limitations into the limitless, and how they created rich lives out of deprivation. We aimed to take up what kind of an intermediary role 'space' serves, while women stretched their limits - without objection, screaming, or revolting; how, in various forms, they have positioned themselves in spaces and re-defined their being, and how spaces in this journey served as an interface be-tween society's perception of women versus their self-perception and their lives.Eduardo Mendoza was born in the city of Barcelona in the year 1943. He studied law and worked for the United Nations. For nine years, I worked as an interpreter in the United States. His most well-known work before An Englishman in Madrid was The City of Marvels. Nicholas Caistor is the recipient of the Premio Planeta and the European Book Award. His translations include Manuel Vazquez Montalban's The Buenos Aires Quintet, as well as works by Eduardo Mendoza, Juan Marse, Alan Pauls, and Guillermo Orsi.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780671702342 |
| ISBN 10 | 0671702343 |
| Title | The City of Marvels |
| Author | Eduardo Mendoza |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pocket Books |
| Year published | 1990-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 418 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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