Feebleminded - Ariana Harwicz

Feebleminded

By: Ariana Harwicz, Carolina Orloff (Translator), Annie McDermott (Translator)

Paperback | 20 August 2019

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In Feebleminded, Harwicz drags us to the most uncomfortable and fascinating aspects of love, need and dependency, by analysing the dynamics between a mother and her adult daughter, both searching through their own past and present as they try to give meaning to their lives and relationship.

Written in a wild stream of consciousness narration, and embedded in a current trend of elusive violence so ingrained in contemporary Latin American fiction, we follow the characters on a roller coaster ride of extreme emotions and critical self-examinations where everything – from a childhood without answers, to a desolate loveless present – has been buried. New from the author of Die, My Love, Longlisted for Man Booker International 2018.

About the Author

Compared to Virgina Woolf and Sylvia Plath, Ariana Harwicz is one of the most radical figures in contemporary Argentinian literature. Her prose is characterised by its violence, eroticism, irony and direct criticism to the clichés surrounding the notions of the family and conventional relationships.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1977, Harwicz studied screenwriting and drama in Argentina. She has taught screenwriting and written two plays, which have been staged in Buenos Aires. She directed the documentary El día del Ceviche (Ceviche’s Day), which has been shown at festivals in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and Venezuela. She is considered to be at the forefront of the so-called new Argentinian fiction, together with other female writers such as Selva Almada, Samanta Schweblin, Mariana Enriquez and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara.
Industry Reviews

"Dangerously addictive." -The Guardian

"A precise, intense, ruthless mosaic that demands we read carefully, never quickly." -Literary Hub

"Celebrating lust and bolshiness with an intensity worthy of Clarice Lispector." -The Times Literary Supplement

"Harwicz succeeds in luring the reader into the darker aspects of the human mind." -Publishers Weekly

"Ariana Harwicz is the real deal, the very definition of an artist."" -Adam Biles , author of FEEDING TIME

"Ariana Harwicz is wet respite from deathless, sexless, bloodless art. "" -Melissa Broder , author of THE PISCES and SO SAD TODAY

"Ariana Harwicz is an intensely passionate and fearless writer whose irresistible prose deserves to be read far and wide."" -Claire-Louise Bennett , author of POND

"A kick up the arse to the literary novel. Feebleminded disassembles form, sensibility, everything... at once a riot (a revolution!) and a headtrip."" -Joanna Walsh , author of VERTIGO and BREAK.UP

"Harwicz achieves an asphyxiating writing, saturated with images of great beauty despite their disturbing character." -El Pais

"The acoustic quality of her prose, the pulse of her voice, the intensity of her imagery make her subjects so daring, so relentless, so damned and unconventional - very hard to drop or ever to forget."" -Lina Meruane , author of FALSE CALM

"Unrelenting and unforgettable, the Argentine author's latest novel is a breathtaking, hectic ride, as well as a strangely exhilarating story that confirms her as one of the most formidable writers at work today." -Jeremy Garber, Powell's Bookshop

Globetrotting: Your sneak preview of books in translation -New York Times

"This is a novel whose characters's conflicts spill out of the page and into the prose used to tell their story, making for a searing read." -Volume 1 Brooklyn

"Feebleminded is a nuclear bomb of recent literature from Argentina, a book of exceptional power with febrile characters." -Pagina/12

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Praise for Ariana Harwicz

Man Booker International Prize (Longlist)
Society of Authors Valle-Inclan Prize (Shortlist)
Best Translated Book Award (Finalist)
Internationaler Literaturpreis (Shortlist)
Republic of Consciousness Prize (Shortlist)

"A touch of David Lynch." -The Guardian

"Celebrating lust and bolshiness with an intensity worthy of Clarice Lispector." -The Times Literary Supplement

"The over-all effect is exacting.... And yet "Die, My Love" isn't truly beholden to plot. The thrill is in the human as animal, and even as parasite." -The New Yorker

"Die, My Love is impressive for the force of the narrator's insatiable rage, which fragments the boundaries of the self. [Anne Enright]" -New York Review of Books

"Unrestrained and unadorned, Harwicz's writing has a wild beauty.... A portrait of motherhood, passion, and mental illness that cuts to the bone." -Kirkus

"We are used to female narrators who occupy one of several familiar niches: blandly 'likeable', 'flawed', or pathological; murderers or abusers who are profiled with just enough sympathy to make us feel humane as we judge them. Harwicz takes us somewhere more profound and forces us to confront the thought that these easy fictional 'explanations' are specious. Lurking inside all of us is the potential for horror."" -Hari Kunzru , author of THE IMPRESSIONIST and GODS WITHOUT MEN

"The prose of Ariana Harwicz embarks on a vertiginous linguistic journey that joyfully shreds all vestiges of common sense."" -Maria Sonia Cristoff , author of FALSE CALM

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