Book record
Pyrotechnics
Hilda Mundy
Translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira
Hilda Mundy's Pyrotechnics, translated by Jessica Sequeira, introduces English-language readers to a Bolivian modernist voice with a title that practically sparks on contact. Mundy's work is often associated with sharp observation, urban modernity, wit, and a refusal to let literary seriousness become dull obedience. Pyrotechnics suggests flashes, noise, danger, performance, and celebration, all of which suit a writer interested in the spectacle and absurdity of modern life. Sequeira's translation helps recover a figure who deserves more attention in conversations about Latin American modernism, especially women writers whose experiments have too often been treated as peripheral. I like this book because it seems to understand intelligence as a form of brightness. Not steady illumination, exactly, but flare after flare, each one briefly revealing the city, the body, and the ridiculous theater of being alive.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- We Heard You Like Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Bolivia
- ISBN
- 9780996421867