Review of Contemporary Fiction, July 1st, 2006
Diamela Eltit. Custody of the Eyes. Trans. Helen Lane and Ronald Christ. Lumen Books, 2005. 104 pp. Paper: $17.00. The need for security demands surveillance, and in a world increasingly uncertain, there can never be enough surveillance. We ask the state for it and, further, assist it in its efforts. Yesterday, it was elsewhere or in the past, but today it is here, everywhere. Can you remember what this is? Anna Akhmatova was asked. Can you speak of it? Diamanda Eltit's Custody of the Eyes, an account of the Pinochet years in Chile, looks back to Hitler and Stalin and forward to life after 9/...
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