![]() ![]() The narrator describes herself as “a tamer Scheherazade,” but she is fierce in her quest to charm, instruct, and awaken readers to the particular challenges of a woman picking her way through the maze of modern life. "Magda Carneci is not only a distinguished poet, translator, and art critic but a first-rate novelist, who uses her storytelling gifts in FEM to open new worlds for the silent auditor of her strange visions. Brilliant, sensual yet also intellectually and politically charged, this is the sort of book that can change lives." –– Fiona Sampson Yet its sustained and virtuoso interrogation of identity, gender and the struggle to become is astonishing. So this searchingly philosophical, psychological and yet also brilliantly visceral fiction should come as no surprise. "Magda Carneci is a leading international literary figure. “This novel is not about plot or character, it is about impressions, images, the beauties of nature, the female body and strange visions.” - The Modern Novel " Poet Cârneci’s rich English-language debut records a woman’s dreamlike ecstatic experiences and revelations.Full of strong imagery, this heavily symbolic work is a notable entry in international feminist literature.” - Publishers Weekly Her stylistic ingenuity is felicitously rendered by her translator.Her novel transgresses feminist ideology, proposing a vision that implies a change in human perception, a vision attempting to unify the outside and the inside, the object and the subject of all human experience…" - Los Angeles Review of Books, Alta Ifland Cârneci is, in the end, an original writer and a masterful stylist, whose mastery of language comes vividly across through Sean Cotter’s dexterous translation. Cârneci's own active approach to living in a body, in fact, is exactly what she begs her listener/reader to adopt, and her appeal is so breathtaking, it's a wonder anyone could refuse." - Asymptote, Lindsay Semel "Like the north ends of two magnets, the two storytellers' refusal to meet tantalizes, inviting the reader into the no-man's land, in which they may question––or even participate in this exchange of identities. “You know the saying in film studies, “Every frame a painting”? In this book, almost every sentence is a poem.” - Travel Through Stories “Cârneci’s work deserves wider international attention.I can only hope that this beautifully crafted publication is just the beginning.” -Jozefina Komporaly, Words Without Borders Cârneci charts how birth, something every mammal undergoes, has transformed and transcended to accompany so much meaning that it can barely be contained by sound or language." – BOMB Magazine, Sarah McEachern "What poetry does in FEM is the opposite of over intellectualizing. Beyond its feminist radicalism, this novel’s readers will discover an impressive quality of mind and artistic refinement that attract our empathy." ––Mircea C ărt ărescu " FEM is a protest novel, a feminist text written with the fervor of a true poet, a book that registers the pain of women in a still male-dominated world. One of World Literature Today's 100 Notable Translations of 2021 Her stories invite the reader through a dreamlike thread of strange images and passing characters, from the small incidents of their lives together to the intimate narrative of her relationship to womanhood, crescendoing in a fantastical vision of love, loss, and femininity. Styled as a long letter addressed to the man she is ready to leave, she spins captivating tales that create space in the cosmos for the female experience. ![]() In this modern classic of global feminist literature, the only novel by one of Romania's most heralded poets, a woman meanders through a cosmic retelling of her life from childhood to adulthood with visionary language and visceral detail. The lyrical, feminist novel that exploded onto the Romanian literary scene: a 21st-century Scheherazade recounts her life to a man she might leave behind forever. ![]()
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