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Arcan, Nelly

In what was her literary debut, Whore, the Québécois writer Nelly Arcan performs a sublime exercise in autofiction where ideas, emotions and memories follow one another, intertwining in a torrential and violent narrative, to capture the testimony of a luxury prostitute in Montreal, a young woman tired of belonging to men, of being described, invented and fantasized only by them. Presented in the form of a disturbing confession to her psychoanalyst, Arcan's harrowing story is not the fruit of sordid exhibitionism or self-pity; on the contrary, it is a text of sociological and philosophical reflection that offers a radical reading of the relationship between the sexes, while showing the fears and obsessions of a woman who defies all social structures and consciously puts on a mask to protect and redefine herself on their own terms.

Author
Arcan, Nelly
Subject
Literature > Narrative in other languages
Genre
Biographical >
EAN
9788498687729
ISBN
978-84-9868-772-9
Edition
1
Publisher
Alberdania
Pages
208 
High
20.5 cm
Weight
14.0 cm
Release date
18-11-2022
Language
Basque 
Series
Narrazioa 
Number
158 
Paperback edition
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Arcan, Nelly (aut.)

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