Skin
Molino, Sergio del, 1979-2022
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Skin is the border of our body and, as such, it is that through which we relate to others but also what separates us from them. Through skin, we speak: when we display it, when we tan it, when we tattoo it, or when we mute it by covering it with clothes. Skin exhibits social relationships, displays power and the effects of power, explains many things about who we are, how others perceive us and how we exist in the world. And when it gets sick, it turns us into monsters. In this book, Sergio del Molino speaks of these monsters in history and literature whose lives have been tormented by bad skin: Stalin secretly taking a bath in his dacha, Pablo Escobar getting up late and shutting himself in the shower, Cyndi Lauper performing a commercial for a medicine promising relief from skin disease, Updike sunburned in the Caribbean, Nabokov writing to his wife from exile, 'Everything would be wonderful, if it weren't for the damn skin'.
Main title:
Skin / Sergio del Molino ; translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead.
Author:
Molino, Sergio del, 1979-, authorBunstead, Thomas, translator
Imprint:
Cambridge : Polity, [2022]©2022
Collation:
220 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781509547852 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
868.708
Language:
EnglishSpanish
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BRN:
2533545
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