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The Incantation of Frida K

By Diego , Baverman , Kate; Kahlo , Frida; Kahlo , Frida; Rivera

Book information

Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Year
2010
ISBN
978-1-609-80007-9, 1609800079
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
220 kB (224830 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Diego. Women painters. Literature. FICTION / LiterFrida. Mexico. Painters' spouses. RiveraKahlo

Description

"I was born in rain and I will die in rain," begins Kate Braverman's The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of Frida K., at 46, on her deathbed, taking us through a kaleidoscope of memories and hallucinations where we shiver for two hundred pages on the threshold of life and death, dream and reality, truth and myth. Defiant and uncompromising, Frida bears the wounds of her body and spirit with a stark pride, transcending all limitations, wrapping her senses around the places, events, and conversations in her past. Frida K. Read more... Abstract: "I was born in rain and I will die in rain," begins Kate Braverman's The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of Frida K., at 46, on her deathbed, taking us through a kaleidoscope of memories and hallucinations where we shiver for two hundred pages on the threshold of life and death, dream and reality, truth and myth. Defiant and uncompromising, Frida bears the wounds of her body and spirit with a stark pride, transcending all limitations, wrapping her senses around the places, events, and conversations in her past. Frida K

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