Ottessa Moshfegh & Lucia Lijtmaer, The Art of Introspection

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Writer Ottessa Moshfegh, author of the acclaimed My Year of Rest and Relaxation and one of the most unique voices of her generation, talks with writer Lucía Lijtmaer in the wake of the publication in Catalan and Spanish of her first work, McGlue. Consecrated worldwide with My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Random House, 2018, published in Catalan by Angle and in Spanish by Alfaguara, 2021), Moshfegh is one of the most unusual and penetrating American writers of her generation. Recognized with several awards such as the PEN/Hemingway and nominated for the Man Booker with My Name Was Eileen (Penguin Press, 2015, published in Spanish by Alfaguara, 2017), in her works she explores maladjustment and the darkest aspects of the human experience, of suffocating mediocrity and bleak marginalization. Translated into Catalan and Spanish, in Death in Her Hands (Penguin Press, 2020, published in Catalan by Angle and in Spanish by Alfaguara, 2021) or in Homesick for Another World (Penguin Press, 2017, published in Catalan by Angle and in Spanish by Alfaguara, 2022) she delves into the instability and adversity of his characters with a curated and dark prose. In 2023 came Lapvona (Penguin Press, 2022, published in Catalan by Angle and in Spanish by Alfaguara), a gothic novel that explores the limits of political correctness. Ten years later comes his debut McGlue (FenceBooks, 2014, published in Catalan by Angle and in Spanish by Alfaguara, 2024), in which Moshfegh takes us back to the mid-nineteenth century and, based on the memories of his protagonist, explores the darkest landscapes of the human mind.