Celina or the Cats
By Mexican author Julieta CamposTranslated by Leland H. Chambers and Kathleen Ross
ISBN: 0-935480-72-2
Price: $16.00
Pages: 128
For Julieta Campos, cats inject our everyday world with the sphere of the unknown. Exploring the questions of what objective reality could be, this collection of five short stories addresses the relationship between language, relationship and the narrative process. Included is an introductory essay that explores the symbolism of cats in life and art.
"...The six pieces here are enjoyable... and top-notch
translations render them in fluid English."
--Publishers Weekly
"... an award winning Cuban-Mexican writer of poetic
fiction and literary criticism... Campos uses the short story
form to explore the nature of reality, of women, and of
narrative itself."
--Library Journal
"The relationship between life/art, language/reality, realism/surrealism suffuse Campos's stories in this
beautifully translated collection."
--Humanities
"With three of Campos's four works of fiction now
available in English, it is high time that North American
readers acquaint themselves with Mexico's most innovative
female writer."
--Review of Contemporary Fiction