Un millón de cuartos propios
Tamara Tenenbaum
ESSAY | 2025 | 256 pages
WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL PAIDÓS PRIZE
In mid-2022, Tamara Tenenbaum was charged with translating Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. With the many questions that said task sparked in her, Tenenbaum proposes a rereading of Woolf's book that allows us to reflect on the current condition of women (though not just them) and delve into the topics that interest her: job insecurity, the disappearance of love in the time of Tinder, food, her relationship with money, resentment as a political response, or nostalgia and the power of tradition.
In lucid and fluid prose, Tenenbaum dialogues with Virginia Woolf's classic and presents us with an essay—one full of philosophical and literary references as well as pop culture—that goes beyond a manifesto and attempts to be, "a proposal for a plebeian and feminist counter-world based on the importance of beauty and work as identity axes and emancipatory factors, producers of equality and freedom."
A Room of One's Own was a guide, inspiration, and oracle for Tamara Tenenbaum, who is above all interested in writing about her own time, and offered her the opportunity to think of other possible ways to exist in the 21st century that oppose the surrounding neoconservative discourse and are both modern and postmodern at once. But above all, ones that help us move through uncertainty without falling into naive optimism or reactionary pessimism.
In the words of the author, "I'm going to A Room of One's Own to do what Virginia said we do with Greek classics: more so than to look for what Virginia had, to look for what we are missing."
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“The author’s voice is present from start to finish. Although it dialogues with Virginia Woolf’s text constantly, it doesn’t merely repeat it but rather discusses it, questions it, transforms it, and adapts it in a way that is profoundly original, turning it into a text with a life of its own.”
“What makes this essay unique is its capacity to combine discourse of great intellectual rigor with a friendly and close tone. It’s a book that invites the reader to come along a thought process without feeling excluded or overwhelmed.”
BY TAMARA TENENBAUM:
Un millón de cuartos propios
ESSAY, 2025
La última actriz
NOVEL, 2024
Todas nuestras maldiciones se cumplieron
NOVEL, 2021
Nadie vive tan cerca de nadie
STORIES, 2020
El fin del amor
NON FICTION, 2019
Reconocimiento de terreno
POETRY, 2017