{"id":2522,"date":"2022-03-02T14:05:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rights-acantiladoqc.com\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2022-03-02T14:06:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:06:23","slug":"prosopagnosia-at-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rights-acantiladoqc.com\/es\/prosopagnosia-at-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"'Prosopagnosia' at The Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acantilado.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/Prosopagnosia-The-Times-19-February-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reviews by Siobhan Murphy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Prosopagnosia<\/em><\/strong> by S\u00f2nia Hern\u00e1ndez, translated by Samuel Rutter<br \/>\nScribe, 128pp; \u00a312.99<\/p>\n<p>This short, strange story about the slippery nature of truth takes a lot of unpacking, even down to its title (prosopagnosia is the medical term for \u201cface blindness\u201d). Berta is 15 and convinced that she deserves only to have ugly things in her life. She plays a game with two friends in which they hold their breath and stare in the mirror until their image distorts and they can\u2019t recognise themselves or one of them faints. To get at the truth about reality, she has decided, you must trick your brain into \u201cseeing\u201d past the way we\u2019re taught to perceive the world. Meanwhile, her mother \u2014 overweight and recently separated \u2014 becomes obsessed with an artist who helped her daughter one day at school. Vicente Rojo, a Spanish Civil War exile, has made his name as a painter in Mexico, and Berta\u2019s mother decides to reboot her journalism career and write a feature extolling his genius. Only the painter doesn\u2019t seem that keen, and Berta\u2019s mother keeps messing up her attempts at interviewing him. And, it\u2019s soon clear, nothing about Vicente is quite what it seems. The swirling oddity of Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s tale is destabilising \u2014 Berta\u2019s mother, our narrator, is as confused as we are as big collide with unhappy lives. Yet the sense of panicked claustrophobia that creates is strangely fascinating, like watching a slowmotion car crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviews by Siobhan Murphy Prosopagnosia by S\u00f2nia Hern\u00e1ndez, translated by Samuel Rutter Scribe, 128pp; \u00a312.99 This short, strange story about the slippery nature of truth takes a lot of unpacking, even down to its title (prosopagnosia is the medical term for \u201cface blindness\u201d). Berta is 15 and convinced that she deserves only to have ugly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rights-acantiladoqc.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rights-acantiladoqc.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rights-acantiladoqc.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rights-acantiladoqc.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rights-acantiladoqc.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rights-acantiladoqc.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2527,"href":"https:\/\/www.rights-acantiladoqc.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions\/2527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rights-acantiladoqc.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rights-acantiladoqc.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rights-acantiladoqc.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rights-acantiladoqc.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}