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A prowl through words reveals the unstable character of the cosmos. With entries as varied as elbow', Ophelia', progress', the painter Giorgio Morandi, chess', Eulalia' (a friend of the author's aunt), and unicorn', Ida Vitale constructs a dictionary of her long and passionately engaged artistic life. Taking the reader by the arm, she invites us to become her confidant, sharing her remarkable 20th century as a member of a storied generation of Latin American writers, of whom she is the last remaining alive. It's a compendium of friendship, travel, reading, and the endless opportunities she found for 'the joyful possibility of creation.' Like every dictionary, Lexicon of Affinities seeks to impose order on chaos, even if in its exuberant, whimsical profusion it lays bare the unstable character of the cosmos.

Lexicon of Affinities

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      Publisher Charco Press
      Published 1/21/2025
      ISBN-13 9781913867591
      978-1913867591
      ISBN-10 1913867595
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction

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      Book Synopsis
      A prowl through words reveals the unstable character of the cosmos. With entries as varied as elbow', Ophelia', progress', the painter Giorgio Morandi, chess', Eulalia' (a friend of the author's aunt), and unicorn', Ida Vitale constructs a dictionary of her long and passionately engaged artistic life. Taking the reader by the arm, she invites us to become her confidant, sharing her remarkable 20th century as a member of a storied generation of Latin American writers, of whom she is the last remaining alive. It's a compendium of friendship, travel, reading, and the endless opportunities she found for 'the joyful possibility of creation.' Like every dictionary, Lexicon of Affinities seeks to impose order on chaos, even if in its exuberant, whimsical profusion it lays bare the unstable character of the cosmos.

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