· "Mauro Javier Cárdenas's Aphasia batters at the limits of guilt, of masculinity, of love and promiscuity, of the American family and English syntax.” —Nicole Krauss, author To Be a Man and The History of Love "Mauro Javier Cárdenas has knocked down the novel as we know it, and built a cathedral out of the www.doorway.ru: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. · By Serena Chang | 11 April, Reviewers of Aphasia by Mauro Javier Cárdenas described the book as “innovative”, “monumental”, “a vibrant modernist novel” and one that will appeal to “fans of Latin American fiction that navigates the bleeding edge of experimentation”. These phrases from its reception indicate that it is an unusual novel, for a number of reasons. "Aphasia batters at the limits of guilt, of masculinity, of love and promiscuity, of the American family and English syntax." --Nicole Krauss "Mauro Javier Cárdenas has knocked down the novel as we know it, and built a cathedral out of the debris. Aphasia is monumental, funny, potent, and fresh. It marks a new beginning." --Carlos Fonseca.
Aphasia by Mauro Javier Cárdenas has an overall rating of Positive based on 7 book reviews. On the occasion of Mauro Javier Cárdenas's second novel, Aphasia, having been published by Farrar, Straus Giroux — my favorite novel of — I spoke (well, emailed) with him about the book's formal and theoretical underpinnings. In true Cárdenasian style, each question leads to its own series of qualifications, destabilizations, jokes, digressions, insults, and analyses. "Mauro Javier Cárdenas's Aphasia batters at the limits of guilt, of masculinity, of love and promiscuity, of the American family and English syntax." —Nicole Krauss, author To Be a Man and The History of Love "Mauro Javier Cárdenas has knocked down the novel as we know it, and built a cathedral out of the debris. Aphasia is monumental.
Mauro Javier Cárdenas’s Aphasia. This novel, Aphasia, mentions—and mentions is a very weak verb, better would be alludes, though alludes also fails, so instead we’ll say references, which points us in the right direction but also falls short, we suppose we will have to proceed anyway, knowing the reader gets the general idea—W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, Robert Walser, Conjunctions, Arvo Pärt, Olivier Messiaen, Richard Greaves, Helen Schulman, László Krasznahorkai, Thomas Bernhard. "Aphasia batters at the limits of guilt, of masculinity, of love and promiscuity, of the American family and English syntax." --Nicole Krauss "Mauro Javier Cárdenas has knocked down the novel as we know it, and built a cathedral out of the debris. Aphasia is monumental, funny, potent, and fresh. It marks a new beginning." --Carlos Fonseca. Mauro Javier Cárdenas: “Aphasia”. Author, Mauro Javier Cárdenas. Photo by Victoria Smith. Mauro Javier Cárdenas discusses reimagining narrative possibilities with his new book, “Aphasia,” and its syntax centered around the performative impulses of his sentences. Its long sentences maneuver between places, time, and characters, and Cárdenas says he wants to explore fresh forms that can replace obstacles in outmoded structures; he says novelistic conventions no longer work for him.
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