The Mutations
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Word Count
46,000 words, Guess
Page Count
184 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780374216535
- ISBN-100374216533
- Library of Congress Control Number2019018889
- OCLC Control Number1082562660
- Better World Books9780374216535
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27714311M
Classifications
- LCCPQ7298.413.O438 M8813 2019
Description
"A modern-day Flaubert takes us on a comic tour through a deeply neurotic Mexico City. Ramo n Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when his privileged life disintegrates after cancer of the tongue deprives him of the source of his power and livelihood: speech. Jorge Comensal's The Mutations is a comedy tracing the metastasis of Ramo n's cancer through his body and through the lives of his family members, colleagues, and doctors, dissecting the experience of illness and mapping the relationships both strengthened and frayed in its wake. Mateo and Paulina, his teenage children, struggle with the temptations of masturbation and binge-eating, respectively. Ramo n's melancholic oncologist is haunted by the memory of a young patient whom he was unable to save. His selfish pathologist believes Ramo n's tumor holds the key to a major scientific breakthrough. And then Elodia, Ramo n's pious maid, brings him a foul-mouthed parrot as a birthday gift, and this filthy bird becomes Ramo n's companion, confidant, and unlikely double. Paying homage to forebears such as Sontag, Didion, Flaubert, and Tolstoy, and filled with a rough-hewn poetry of regret, rage, and, finally, resignation, The Mutations offers up a profound and funny cross section of modern Mexico, as well as a bold treatment of an unspeakable yet universal reality." -- Ramo n Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. Then cancer of the tongue deprives him of the source of his power and livelihood: speech. The cancer metastasizes through his body, and relationships are both strengthened and frayed by its wake. When Elodia, Ramo n's maid, brings him a foulmouthed parrot as a birthday gift, the lewd bird becomes Ramo n's companion, confidant, and unlikely double. -- adapted from jacket
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