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“Custody of the Eyes is Helen Lane and Ronald Christ’s brilliant translation of Diamela Eltit’s Los vigilantes (1994). In the novel, Eltit dramatizes voice, gender, and power in the relationship among mother, son, and father. As translators, Lane and Christ capture the intensity of expression that evokes, calls upon, even preys upon the figure of the mother as the lightning rod of power and repression in an oppressive society. Custody of the Eyes explores the climate of vigilance related not only to gender and familial relations but also to the social fabric torn by the Chilean experience of Pinochet’s dictatorship. Earlier translations of Eltit’s novels, such as Fourth World, Sacred Cow, and Ronald Christ’s E. Luminata, introduced English-language readers to Eltit’s radically experimental prose. Custody of the Eyes brings into English the challenging and questioning linguistic performance that sustains Eltit’s approach to the novelistic genre.”—Danny J. Anderson, editor, Pan-American Literature in Translation for the University of Texas PressDiamela Eltit has “forged what is considered as one of the most risk-taking and consistent narrative projects to emerge in Chile in the last decades.”—Mary Green, University of ManchesterJean Franco describes the goals of Eltit’s fiction: “to act against the authoritarian state, to take literature symbolically into the most marginal of spaces, to work against the easy readability of the commercial text, to foreground the woman’s body as a site of contention, to increase or exaggerate the marginality of art, and juxtapose literature’s marginality to that of prostitutes, vagabonds, and the homeless.”
Paperback: 72 pages
Publisher: Lumen Books (November 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0930829565
ISBN-13: 978-0930829568
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.3 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This book is written in a radical and potentially innovative style. It resembles "stream-of-consciousness" writing in some respects, but is not. The first section contains the thoughts of a child, later sections the thoughts of a mother. House-bound in repressive Chile, the mother rages against the deeply repressive Chilean world and her former husband while developing an intense and unusual relationship with her child. The motif of the "vessel" is developed, and developed (the child is obsessed with vessels), though its weird significance is never concretely communicated.While the Custody of the Eyes may contain important stylistic innovations (I reserve judgment on this account), its nature is to be (perhaps on purpose) hostile toward the reader. It is vague and ambiguous and laced with disturbing happenings and symbols. It lacks a conventional plot or indeed any sense of organization which might lend guidance to the reader. I believe most readers will find it inaccessible.
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