RaveAsymptote... what is true, in a lawful sense, is curled and uncurled in this text, making it one of the more incisive intersectional feminist analyses of myth and murder ... this intimate perspective expresses her own dissatisfaction as she undertakes the momentous journey to recover hazy memories and unpack a fraught history ... When the law fails to provide a full spectrum of answers, Trabucco Zerán seeks out Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Sara Ahmed, Judith Butler, and many others. She looks at the possibilities of womanhood from law and literature alike, and Alfaro’s history is pieced together sensitively, revealing how her employers restricted and demeaned her ... translated by the exceptionally talented Sophie Hughes ... Through her spectacular translation, the reader experiences the text’s shapeshifting nature, being pulled into the dazzling vulnerability of the diary entries then taken back to the disciplined and necessary task of understanding women behind and beyond the sensationalist portrayal of their acts ... Weaving together multiple literary styles and a wide range of voices, When Women Kill constantly remolds and blends genres, culminating in an irresistibly compelling read.
Luiz Ruffatot, trans. by Julia Sanches
RaveAsymptote\"Sanches’s deft translation highlights the impoverished man and portrays a family broken apart by the suicide of Oséias’s sister, Lígia ... The delicate translation captures not just the ambivalence of the character, but the auditory and tactile senses of the text ... [Sanches\'s] prowess resonates especially through Ruffato’s constant use of staccato sentences, which detail the mundane and quotidian. The book is an anti-journey ... how can endlessly detailing tasks be so sublime? Ruffato portrays not only heartbreak, abuse, declining health, and suicide, but also nostalgia, warmth, and humor ... The reading experience, then, is also about exploring the anti-journey, rather than reveling in neat answers. The hypnotic lies in the ambivalence of the characters. The glimpses of different lives, where the reader is unable to fully immerse oneself, provides a gaze not only of a dynamic city, but of the many faces of family strife.
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