La Guerra de Las Mariconas

Buenos Aires: El cuenco de plata, 2010. 1a. ed. 125 p.. Traducción de: La guerre des pédés. About near fine with faint foxing to prelims and slight signs of use. Paperback. ISBN: 9789871228850; 9871228856

In Spanish. The first Argentine edition, 2,500 copies. A translation of Margarita Martínez, of Copi’s La guerre des pédés, first published in French in 1982. Copi was the pen name of Raúl Damonte Botana (1939–1987). He was born in Buenos Aires and lived permanently in Paris from 1962. There he made his name first as a cartoonist, with the strip La femme assise in Le Nouvel Observateur, which ran for ten years, and then as a playwright: his first piece, Sainte Geneviève dans sa baignoire, was staged by Jorge Lavelli in 1966. Apart from a few works, including the novel La vida es un tango, he wrote in French, which he called his “lover tongue,” as opposed to his mother tongue, “Argentine.” This apocalyptic satire follows its narrator, “Copi,” and a band of mariconas through a war that ends, quite literally, with leaving the world and travelling to the Moon. It was written two years after La ciudad de las ratas and shares that book’s gleeful demolition of the line between the acceptable and the unacceptable. The book had appeared in Spain in 1983 as La guerra de las mariquitas (Laertes). This edition, by contrast, belongs to El Cuenco de Plata’s deliberate project of rendering Copi into Rioplatense Spanish, reclaiming him for Argentine literature against the peninsular Spanish of the Anagrama translations. Copi’s narrative work now stands at the centre of contemporary Argentine fiction.Traducción de Margarita Martínez, del frances. Extraterritorial; [series]. } Narración (Retórica) -- Argentina. Narración (Retórica) -- Argentina. Novelas