Home > Books & Magazines > Printed Book >

Panic Signs - Cristina Peri Rossi

Description: ISBN 0889203938 / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Author: Cristina Peri Rossi / Paperback / 126 Pages / Book is published 2002-05-01 by Wilfrid ... more

Panic Signs - Cristina Peri Rossi ... Laurier University Press

Newest Review: ... charges and presages the horrors that were to come: the disappearances, censorship, repression and torture. The author ... more

... herself would have her works banned and be forced to leave the country for her own safety, where she lives to this day in Barcelona. But the book is difficult for another reason. It is full of metaphor. "Man is a hunter of signs...existence has no meaning without interpretation", but the author's signs are often not easy to interpret. But we are reassured that signs are multiple and this is how it should be. "There is no one reading," she writes "though politicians sometimes do not understand [thi...more

Read Reviews for Panic Signs - Cristina Peri Ro...

Panic Signs - Cristina Peri Rossi: Nighmarish visions and the redemptive power of the erotic an ... (508 words)
by - written on 19/05/09 (Very useful, 27 readings)
Rating:

"It is time to say that man, before receiving the benefits of culture, should receive the benefits of order. In a certain sense, it can be said that, historically, the policeman has taken precedence over the teacher." --Benito Mussolini This is a collection of 46 short texts of poetic prose written just prior to the military takeover of the author's home country of Uruguay in 1972. It is a difficult book, difficult first for its subject matter; it tells of the terrible happenings as a country lets itself slip into a police state, the despair of houses being torn apart in police searches and people being arrested on trumped up charges and ... Read the complete review