Mario bellatin an extremely slender, sad tale by bellatin recounts a gay mans reflections on the waning days of. Speaking of bellatin, this peruvianmexican writer is the author of another key mexican text. Descargue como doc, pdf, txt o lea en linea desde scribd. Mario bellatin was born in mexico city in 1960 and studied film in cuba. In just 60 pages, bellatin narrates a parablelike tale that ruminates elegantly. Mario bellatin was born in mexico city to peruvian parents. Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. Mario bellatins novella about a hairstylist who converts his salon to the stars.
Bellatin crafts some of the most haunting imagery and even now, weeks later, i still recall scenes with a shudder. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read obra reunida. Jul 01, 2009 beauty salon, a novella by the mexican writer mario bellatin and translated into english by kurt hollander, is a sad but ultimately lifeaffirming story told by an unnamed narrator who has converted his beauty salon, salon to the stars, into a hospice called the terminal for men in the last stages of a horrific disease. Formerly a stylist in a beauty salon in an unnamed city, the narrator, a transvestite, has now. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Excerpt from beauty salon free download as pdf file. A singular talent and risktaking storyteller, bellatin is the author of the short novels, canon perpetuo, efecto invernadero, damas chinas, and poeta ciego. Soon after mario was born, his parents returned to lima. The nameless narrator is transvestite who ran a beauty salon but in recent yeas has converted it into the terminal, a place where terminally ill men close to death from an unidentified but aidslike plague spend their final days. When i least expect it new guests come and knock on the door of the beauty salon. May 09, 2012 obra reunida ebook written by mario bellatin.
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