{"product_id":"comemadre-by-roque-larraquy","title":"'Comemadre' by Roque Larraquy","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"575\"\u003eA short, viciously neat novel about bodies and cutting them open.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"575\"\u003eBeginning in a sanatorium outside Buenos Aires in 1907, it follows a group of doctors experimenting on terminal patients with the bright moral hygiene of men who have mistaken curiosity for ethics. A hundred years later, the novel shifts into the world of contemporary art, where the body is still being used, staged, damaged, aestheticised, and sold back as meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"577\" data-end=\"1034\"\u003eLarraquy is not writing a big swollen medical gothic; he is doing something sharper and stranger, closer to a specimen slide with teeth. The violence is bureaucratic, the absurdity is calm, and the central question keeps mutating: when does looking become violation, and when does knowledge become a very elaborate excuse?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1036\" data-end=\"1386\"\u003eThere is a clear Argentine lineage here — dictatorship, anatomy, class, institutional power, the terrible comedy of official language — but \u003cem data-start=\"1176\" data-end=\"1187\"\u003eComemadre\u003c\/em\u003e also feels uncannily current in its interest in performance, consent, documentation, and the body as a site where science, art, power, and ambition all arrive with clean hands and dirty instruments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1397\" data-end=\"1588\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eText Publishing paperback, 2019; first published in Spanish in 2010, first English-language edition 2018. Translated by Heather Cleary. Light handling wear visible; clean, solid reading copy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44656193994835,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-05-25T170026.231.png?v=1779692439","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/comemadre-by-roque-larraquy","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}