{"product_id":"out-of-the-cage-9781646050451","title":"Out of the Cage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOut of the Cage\u003c\/i\u003e opens in 1956, in Argentina, with the freakish death of Aurora Berro, and descends into a dark philosophical exploration of humanity and mortality. In the midst of her family's celebration of a national holiday, an LP, careening through the air like a \"demented boomerang,\" severs her jugular. Her family-- an agglomeration of perversions, deformities, and obsessions--seems at first not to notice, singing on. Aurora is left behind in a voyeuristic limbo as an omniscient first-person narrator, to observe the depravity of her family and reflect on the farce of her life and human existence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Fernanda García Lao has been called \"the strangest writer of Argentine literature,\" and in \u003ci\u003eOut of the Cage\u003c\/i\u003e, she lives up to that distinction. The book is saturated in strangeness, a blend of formal experimentation, eroticism, grotesque theatricality, and dark humor that evokes the absurdist fictions of Witold Gombrowicz and the style of Silvina Ocampo. The result is a macabre and fantastic vaudeville, a tragicomedy, a kind of Dadaist opus against ideas of eternal beauty and fixed identity, against absolute concepts and universality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646050451\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168","brand":"Fernanda Garc\u0026#237;a Lao","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38471390855349,"sku":"9781646050451","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7d8881b9-fef4-4145-aa1d-194ac9222cc5.jpg?v=1612929657","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/out-of-the-cage-9781646050451","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}