"Cuando era una joven aspirante a escritora, Carmen Maria Machado conoci̤ a una chica menuda, rubia, de clase alta, licenciada en Harvard, sofisticada y fascinante con la que inici̤ su primera relaci̤n ľsbica, despǔs de varias experiencias sexuales con hombres. La chica pose̕a una id̕lica cabąa en Bloomington, Virginia: la casa de los suęos del t̕tulo. Pero los suęos se convirtieron en pesadillas cuando la novia de Machado empez̤ a mostrarse celosa, controladora y paranoica, para luego acusarla de engąarla con todo el mundo y acabar agredǐndola verbal e incluso f̕sicamente. Este libro es el testimonio de una relaci̤n t̤xica, que en este caso no tiene como agresor a un var̤n heterosexual de mentalidad patriarcal y machista, sino a una lesbiana. Y este es un primer elemento que da valor al texto: la denuncia de la violencia en la pareja dentro de la comunidad queer. Pero la calidad excepcional de la propuesta de Machado va m̀s all̀: en lugar de quedarse en un mero ejercicio de testimonio personal, utiliza la historia vivida -y sufrida- para explorar m̀s a fondo el tema, jugando literariamente con ̌l. Y lo hace mediante la manipulaci̤n de los ǧneros narrativos -la novela rom̀ntica, la er̤tica, la de iniciaci̤n, la de terror...-, lo cual le permite contar su historia y reflexionar a la vez sobre c̤mo contamos todos las nuestras. El resultado: una nueva muestra del talento inmenso y transgresor de Carmen Maria Machado, una de las voces femeninas m̀s radicales y l͠cidas del panorama literario contempor̀neo, capaz de combinar la exploraci̤n formal con una transparencia absoluta en el relato de la experiencia vivida y la sexualidad. El libro es una pirueta literaria brillant̕sima y seductora, as̕ como un testimonio de una sinceridad arrolladora sobre los abusos emocionales y f̕sicos."--Cover, page 4. "When she was a young aspiring writer, Carmen Maria Machado met a small, blonde, upper class, Harvard graduate, sophisticated and fascinating girl with whom she began her first lesbian relationship, after several sexual experiences with men. The girl He owned an idyllic cabin in Bloomington, Virginia: the dream house of the title. But the dreams turned into nightmares when Machado's girlfriend began to be jealous, controlling and paranoid, then accused of cheating on her with everyone and ending up assaulting her verbally and even physically. This book is the testimony of a toxic relationship, which in this case does not have as its aggressor a heterosexual male with a patriarchal and macho mentality, but a lesbian. And this is the first element that gives value to the text: denouncing intimate partner violence within the queer community. But the exceptional quality of Machado's proposal goes further: instead of remaining in a mere exercise of tes personal witness, she uses the story lived - and suffered - to explore the subject further, playing literary games with it. And she does it through the manipulation of narrative genres -the romantic novel, the erotic one, the initiation novel, the horror novel ...-, which allows her to tell her story and reflect at the same time on how we all tell stories. ours. The result: a new sample of the immense and transgressive talent of Carmen Maria Machado, one of the most radical and lucid female voices on the contemporary literary scene, capable of combining formal exploration with absolute transparency in the story of lived experience and sexuality. . The book is a brilliant and seductive literary pirouette, as well as a testimony of overwhelming sincerity about emotional and physical abuse. "- Cover, page 4.
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