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The Queen of Swords - JAZMINA BARRERA - CHRISTINA MACSWEENEY

The Queen of Swords

JAZMINA BARRERA
CHRISTINA MACSWEENEY

 
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In what was at first meant to be a short essay about the influential Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916-1988), Jazmina Barrera’s deep curiosity and exploration give us a singular portrait of a complex life.

Sifting through the writer’s archives at Princeton, Barrera is repeatedly thwarted in her attempt to fully know her subject. Traditional means of research—the correspondence, photos, and books—serve only to complicate and cloud the woman and her work.Who was Elena Garro, really?

She was a writer, a founder of “magical realism”, a dancer. A devotee to the tarot and theI Ching. A socialite and activist on behalf of indigenous Mexicans. She was a mother and a lover who repeatedly shook off (and cheated on) her manipulative husband, Nobel-laureate Octavio Paz. And above all, she wrote with simmering anger and glittering imagination.

The Queen of Swords is a portrait of a woman that also serves as an alternative history of Mexico City; a cry-out for justice; and an homage to the unknowable. It transcends mere biography, supplanting something tidy and authoritative for a sprawling experiment in understanding.

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Author:  JAZMINA BARRERA
CHRISTINA MACSWEENEY
Title: The Queen of Swords
Release date: 21 November 2025
Editor: TWO LINES PRESS
Subject: ECRIVAINS/GENS DE LETTRES
ISBN: 9781949641875 (1949641872)
Renaud-Bray Reference: 21453636
Item nb: 4433920

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