DISLOCATIONS
How do you keep a friendship intact, when Alzheimer's has stolen the common ground of language, memory, and experience, that unites you?
In brief, sharply drawn moments, Sylvia Molloy's Dislocations records the gradual loss of a beloved friend, M.L., a disappearance in ways expected forgotten names, forgotten moments and painfully surprising the reversion to a formal, proper Spanish from their previous shared vernacular . There are occasions of wonder, too-M.L. can no longer find the words to say she is dizzy, but can translate that message from Spanish to English, when it's passed along by a friend.
This loss holds Molloy's sense of herself too-the person she is in relation to M.L. fades as her friend's memory does. But the writer remains: 'I'm not writing to patch up holes and make people or myself think that there's nothing to see here, but rather to bear witness to unintelligibilities and breaches and silences. That is my continuity, that of the scribe.'
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
MOLLOY SYLVIA
Sylvia Molloy es novelista y crítica. Es autora de las novelas En breve cárcel y El común olvido, y de los libros de relatos Varia imaginación, Desarticulaciones y Vivir entre lenguas. Entre sus libros de crítica se cuentan Las letras de Borges, Acto de presencia y Poses de fin de siglo. Reside en los Estados Unidos desde hace muchos años y ha sido catedrática de literatura latinoamericana y comparada en las universidades de Princeton, Yale y en la New York University, donde ocupó la cátedra Albert Schweitzer de Humanidades y fundó la Maestría de Escritura Creativa en Español.
