The nameless narrator is transvestite who ran a beauty salon but in recent yeas has converted it into the terminal, a place where terminally ill men close to death from an unidentified but aidslike plague spend their final days. Mario bellatin s beauty salon, translated elegantly from the spanish by kurt hollander, is a strange and beautiful parable about human bodies living and dying on the fringes of society. Mario bellatin was born in mexico city to peruvian parents. Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. Entrevista al escritor mario bellatin medium en espanol. Mario bellatin was born in mexico city in 1960 and studied film in cuba. There are periods in which the beauty salon is completely empty. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. The brevity of bellatin s novella is deceptivein just sixtythree pages, the story of this unnamed narrator, a crossdressing, homosexual hair stylist who turns his beloved beauty salon into a hospice for. Mario bellatins beauty salon words without borders.
Mario bellatin april 14, a few years ago my interest in aquariums led me to decorate my beauty salon with colored. Mario bellatin an extremely slender, sad tale by bellatin recounts a gay mans reflections on the waning days of. Over time i have realized that the disease comes in spurts. Beauty salon, a novella by the mexican writer mario bellatin and translated into english by kurt hollander, is a sad but ultimately lifeaffirming story told by an unnamed narrator who has converted his beauty salon, salon to the stars, into a hospice called the terminal for men in the last stages of a horrific disease. Ship this item qualifies for free shipping buy online, pick up in store is currently. On the one hand are ranged the values of rationality, coolness, shrew selfseeking, energetic individualism, radical protest and rebellion. In 1987, bellatin moved to cuba, where he studied screenplay writing at the international film school latinoamericana. Obra reunida 1 mario bellatin pdf descargar libros. Soon after mario was born, his parents returned to lima. Rather than have a plot or any story arc, the novella simply exists as a snapshot of an existence. May 09, 2012 mario bellatin mexico, 1960 estudio teologia y cine. Bellatin crafts some of the most haunting imagery and even now, weeks later, i still recall scenes with a shudder. Obra reunida 1 mario bellatin pdf descargar libros gratis.
A singular talent and risktaking storyteller, bellatin is the author of the short novels, canon perpetuo, efecto invernadero, damas chinas, and poeta ciego. Formerly a stylist in a beauty salon in an unnamed city, the narrator, a transvestite, has now. Mario bellatin, author, kurt hollander, translator, trans. Descargar obra reunida 1 mario bellatin epub, pdf, mobi.
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