{"id":273196,"date":"2009-08-14T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/08\/14\/latest-review-beauty-salon-by-mario-bellatin\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:10:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:10:06","slug":"latest-review-beauty-salon-by-mario-bellatin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/08\/14\/latest-review-beauty-salon-by-mario-bellatin\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition to our review section<\/a> is a piece by Larissa Kyzer on Mario Bellatin’s Beauty Salon<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

Bellatin’s a pretty interesting author (see this post<\/a> about the recent NY Times<\/em> profile) and hopefully a bunch more of his books (especially Flores<\/em>) will come out in the near future. <\/p>\n

Larissa—who’s reviewed a number of books<\/a> for us—also reviews for L Magazine<\/em> and is working towards her Master\u2019s in Library Science, while also studying Danish. Recently, she wrote a very interesting piece on Scandinavian crime fiction that you can find here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the opening of her review:<\/p>\n

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Although still an unknown in much of the English-reading world, experimental Mexican author Mario Bellat\u00edn is undoubtedly poised for a Le Cl\u00e9zio-esque breakthrough. A Guggenheim recipient, Bellat\u00edn is the author of nearly twenty novellas and short works, and has garnered so much success in the international market that he\u2019s recently been courted by the preeminent French publishing house Gallimard to release several forthcoming novels in French translation prior to their publication in his native Spanish. Beauty Salon<\/em> is only Bellat\u00edn\u2019s second publication in English (Chinese Checkers<\/em>, a compendium of three of his other novellas, was published in 2008).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The novella finds a lonely, unnamed hair stylist caring for the dying victims of an unidentified plague (strongly recalling the AIDS<\/span> virus) in his converted beauty salon. Where once the salon was plush and dazzling\u2014with elaborate aquariums and exotic fish lining the walls\u2014now it is \u201csimply the Terminal,\u201d refitted with the bare essentials to care for victims of the disease who \u201c. . . are strangers who have nowhere else to die. If it weren\u2019t for the Terminal their only option would be to perish in the street.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Click here<\/a> for the full review. <\/p>\n

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