Ebook {Epub PDF} Seeing Red by Lina Meruane

 · In the second half of Lina Meruane's astonishing novel "Seeing Red," the protagonist, Lina, lies in the operating room awaiting eye surgery to treat blindness caused by diabetic www.doorway.ru Accessible For Free: False. The author, also named Lina Meruane, and also a Chilean writer and former doctoral student at New York University, suffers from the same affliction as the protagonist. To say Seeing Red is simply autobiographical fiction, though, seems too superficial; as confessional as it is, full of Lina’s troubles and instabilities, it feels more like a tell-all, or more properly like a self-indictment. “In Lina Meruane’s searing autobiographical novel Seeing Red, the narrator describes what she saw during an ocular hemorrhage that rendered her blind As she navigates this new, uncertain existence with her boyfriend―moving together to a new apartment in New York City, visiting family back in Santiago, and undergoing endless, inconclusive medical exams and procedures―Lina perseveres by /5(24).

seeing red by Lina Meruane ; translated by Megan McDowell ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 16, A female writer who is losing her sight probes the meaning of language, genre, and the reader's expectations. Seeing Red. Lina Meruane Megan McDowell. $; $; Publisher Description "Meruane's prose has great literary force: it emerges from the hammer blows of conscience, but also from the ungraspable, and from pain."—Roberto Bolaño. Seeing Red, by Chilean writer Lina Meruane, is an exemplary autobiographical novel. At a party in New York City, the main character, Lina, suffers from a stroke, which causes the blood vessels behind her corneas to burst. According to her, this stroke was inevitable and doctors forewarned her of this fate.

Seeing Red. Lina Meruane, trans. from the Spanish by Megan McDowell. Deep Vellum (Consortium, dist.), $ trade paper (p) ISBN Tweet. In the second half of Lina Meruane's astonishing novel "Seeing Red," the protagonist, Lina, lies in the operating room awaiting eye surgery to treat blindness caused by diabetic retinopathy. Seeing Red by Lina Meruane, Megan McDowell (Translator) | Editorial Reviews. Paperback (New Edition) Paperback. $