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On the one hand are ranged the values of rationality, coolness, shrew selfseeking, energetic individualism, radical protest and rebellion. Animality, sexuality and the politics of death in mario bellatins. The nameless narrator is transvestite who ran a beauty salon but in recent yeas has converted it into the terminal, a place where terminally ill men close to death from an unidentified but aidslike plague spend their final days. Beauty salon, a novella by the mexican writer mario bellatin and translated into english by kurt hollander, is a sad but ultimately lifeaffirming story told by an unnamed narrator who has converted his beauty salon, salon to the stars, into a hospice called the terminal for men in the last stages of a horrific disease. The brevity of bellatins novella is deceptivein just sixtythree pages, the story of this unnamed narrator, a crossdressing, homosexual hair stylist who turns his beloved beauty salon into a hospice for. Beauty salon, a novella by the mexican writer mario bellatin and translated into english by kurt hollander, is a sad but ultimately lifeaffirming story told by an unnamed narrator who has converted his beauty salon, salon to the stars, into a hospice called the terminal for men in. The brevity of bellatins novella is deceptivein just sixtythree pages, the story of this unnamed narrator, a crossdressing, homosexual hair stylist. Obra reunida 1 mario bellatin pdf descargar libros.
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