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The Impenetrable Madam X

Griselda Gambaro
Translated by Evelyn Picon Garfield 		The Impenetrable Madam X is a naughty, comic romp through the fields of desire and pleasure in 19th century Spain. With tongue in cheek, Gambaro concocts hilariously exaggerated scenes of sexual acrobatics, poking fun at virile prowess, aging femininity, heterosexual hypocrisy and homosexual taboos.
In this work, Gambaro shuns the well-trodden path to domination and pain for the sometimes frustrating one of erotic union and pleasure. Latent desires are not played out in victimizations of women by men but in a "battle without blood," where the contenders alternate as victors without cruelty and as vanquished without humiliation. Furthermore, Gambaro explores the sensuously boundless space of woman's desire and pleasure, while poking fun at phallocentric sexuality that tends to dominate not only in erotic literature but also in traditional psychoanalytic theories of Western culture as well.		 Griselda Gambaro was born in Buenos Aires. Although known primarily as one of Latin America's most accomplished dramatists, she began her literary career by writing novellas and short stories. She has won several prestigious national awards in Argentina and has been a Guggenheim Fellow in the United States. El campo is the most powerful of her more than one dozen plays.
 
$22.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2126-7

150 pages

1991 (Originally published as
Lo impenetrable, Buenos Aires 1984)