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The Murmuration

Name: The Murmuration
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ISBN: 9781960385017

Carlos Labbé

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Within the world of Labbé's fiction, The Murmuration can be understood as a continuation and broadening, a shift toward a more explicit expression of the political project signaled in his early work and a doubling-down on the formal playfulness and elusive sensibility that characterize all of his fiction. Popular forms and genres (from science fiction and journalism in Navidad & Matanza to detective fiction in Loquela to pop music and protest movements in Spiritual Choreographies) have always been integral to Labbé's novels, and with The Murmuration he makes his most direct appeal to the masses yet, engaging the world of professional soccer. With the 1962 World Cup in Chile as the focal point, Labbé builds a narrative that is at once a story of intrigue and action and an exploration of ideas that animate the late-capitalist discourse of our current moment (e.g. class warfare, feminism, political representation, and...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Open Letter

Language:

English

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9781960385017

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9781960385062, 9781960385017