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    612-822-4611

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Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & a Portrait Gallery

Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & a Portrait Gallery

Gonzalez, Stacy
Aridjis, Chloe

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Letters & EssaysLiterary CriticismAnthropology

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ISBN13: 9798212982306
Publisher: HighBridge Audio
Published: Dec 26 2023
Language: English
Renowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridjis now presents her first collection of shorter works, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy



Chloe Aridjis's stories and essays are known to transport readers into liminal, often dreamlike, realms. In this collection of works, we meet a woman guided only by a plastic bag drifting through the streets of Berlin who discovers a nonsense-named bar that is home to papier-mâché monsters and one glass-encased somnambulist. Floating through space, cosmonauts are confronted not only with wonder and astonishment, but tedium and solitude. And in Mexico City, stray dogs animate public spaces, infusing them with a noble life force. In her pen portraits, Aridjis turns her eye to expats and outsiders, including artists and writers such as Leonora Carrington, Mavis Gallant, and Beatrice Hastings.



Exploring the complexity of exile and urban alienation, Dialogue with a Somnambulist showcases the rare writer who reinvents herself in each book (Garth Greenwell) and who is as imaginatively at home in the short form as in her longer fiction.

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