WELCOME TO THE UNCANNY Ottessa Moshfegh

En una visita reciente al Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, la autora estadounidense de ascendencia iraní y croata presentó la traducción de su primera novela y explicó su debilidad por la complejidad de los personajes aborrecibles.

by RUBEN PUJOL

BOOKS Ottessa Moshfegh’s second novel turned her into the voice of the Millennial generation. Published in 2018, My Year of Rest and Relaxation is set in New York in the months leading up to the 9/11 attacks. Its unnamed protagonist has everything to be happy: she is young, pretty, chic and well-educated, and works at an upscale1 art gallery in Manhattan, and has a large inheritance that allows her a comfortable life. However, she lacks motivation and cannot find joy in her privilege, and can only find solace2 in sleep. So she embarks on a strange personal project: to sleep as much as possible for one year with the help of prescription drugs that she stockpiles3 by lying to her therapist about her insomnia. She hopes that she will…

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