Of My Real Life I Know Nothing
By Ana María MoixTranslated by Sandra Kingery
ISBN: 1891270230
Price: $17.00
Pages: 144
Ana María Moix is one of the most important names in Spanish fiction today. She is the author of over twenty books that range widely from her prize-winning poetry to her prize-winning fiction. Particularly well-known to English-speaking audiences is her novel Julia, which was translated by Sandra Kingery and was very favorably reviewed.
Of My Real Life I Know Nothing is Moix's most recent work to date. The stories, connected through a complex interweaving of repeated themes, create a shimmering mosaic where readers will encounter the very humorous dynamics of a tour group in Italy; the haunting reality of a man who loses interest in his soccer team; a dead mother whose ghostly apparition wanders the city streets at night; passion, impotence, and tragedy; and so much more from everyday life. Moix's prose is always highly polished, rigorously detailed and intimate. It allows readers a glimpse into strange and very amusing worlds where nothing is taken for granted and everything is open to question.
Moix was born in Barcelona in 1947. She was a very precocious writer (she began writing at age 12), and she was the youngest among the famous Barcelona group of "novísimos" in the late 1960s. She focused on studies of philosophy in the university, and became very involved in the editorial committee for the important journal, Vindicación femenista in the mid-late 1970s. She was already well-recognized as a poet who had her finger on the pulse of the youth by this time (one reviewer called her the "great white hope" of her generation), and she had also already written her first three novels (which caused a sensation at the time), as well as collections of essays and articles. As her career has developed, she has continued to work in the literary field as a writer, translator, travel book writer, journalist, and editor.
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