Labbe Carlos - The Murmuration - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Within the world of Labbe's fiction The Murmuration can be understood as a continuation and broadening a shift toward a more explicit expression of the political project signaled in his early work and a doubling - down on the formal playfulness and elusive sensibility that characterize all of his fiction. Popular forms and genres (from science fiction and journalism in Navidad & Matanza to detective fiction in Loquela to pop music and protest movements in Spiritual Choreographies) have always been integral to Labbe's novels and with The Murmuration he makes his most direct appeal to the masses yet engaging the world of professional soccer. With the 1962 World Cup in Chile as the focal point Labbe builds a narrative that is at once a story of intrigue and action and an exploration of ideas that animate the late - capitalist discourse of our current moment (e. g. class warfare feminism political representation and social justice). What emerges is a novel that enacts - in form and content - the notion that art can only transcend the cages of tradition and convention of colonialism and global capitalism of systemic exploitation and extractive politics through collective creative action.
Title: The Murmuration
Author(s): Labbe Carlos
Publisher: Open Letter
Barcode: 9781960385017
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 7/2/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction