The book of Eve / Carmen Boullosa ; translated by Samantha Schnee.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781646052240
- ISBN: 1646052242
- Physical Description: 252 pages 252 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, [2023]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "What if everything they've told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and ninety-one chapters, Eve decides to tell her version of the story of Genesis: she was not created from Adam's rib, nor was she expelled for taking the apple from the serpent; the story of Abel and Cain isn't true, neither are those of the Flood and the Tower of Babel . . . In brilliant prose, Carmen Boullosa offers a twist on the Book of Genesis that dismantles patriarchy and rebuilds our understanding of the world-from the origin of gastronomy, to the domestication of animals, to the cultivation of land and pleasure-all through the feminine gaze. Based on this exploration, at times both joyful and painful, The Book of Eve takes a tour through the stories we've been told since childhood, which have helped to foster (and cement) the absurd idea that woman is the companion, complement, and even accessory to man, opening the door to criminal violence against women. Boullosa refutes this entrenched, dangerous perspective in her foundational and brazen feminist novel"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Subject: | Feminism > Fiction. |
Genre: | Novels. |
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The Book of Eve
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Table of Contents
The Book of Eve
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Teresa of Avila's Prologue | 19 | |
1 | The Beginning | 25 |
2 | Presenting Eve, the Apple, Eden, and Eve's Daughters, Who Ask about the Serpent | 29 |
3 | Nakedness, the Look, the Voices of the Trees | 36 |
4 | Thunder | 39 |
5 | Thunder Butchers the Animals, Their Hides | 41 |
6 | Eden Stank | 43 |
Loose papers which were interspersed among the pages of the first book | ||
7 | The Hooves and the Memory of Eden | 51 |
8 | The Sight of Earth | 53 |
9 | The First Ridge | 55 |
10 | The Guardian Angel and Fire | 57 |
11 | The Second Ridge. The Slope. The Cold and the Weeping | 61 |
12 | The Moon (Absent and Present). Laughter | 63 |
13 | Night | 66 |
14 | Eve Dreams | 68 |
15 | Eve and Adam | 70 |
16 | Adam's Skin | 71 |
17 | Thirst | 72 |
18 | Fire, the Protector | 74 |
19 | Words | 75 |
20 | White Darkness | 77 |
21 | The Rain. Eve's Dance | 79 |
22 | The Bee | 81 |
23 | The Beast and Our Flight | 82 |
Eve's Loose Papers | 83 | |
24 | Descent | 91 |
25 | The Rivulet of Water | 93 |
26 | The CaveHouse; Making Fire; The Song; The First Cave Painting; The End of Our Hooves | 95 |
27 | Curiosity, Fear, Cooking | 98 |
28 | Fingernails, Hair. One Anus, the Other, Defecation and Hunger | 100 |
29 | To the Plains, the Beasts, the Clay | 101 |
30 | Molding Clay, the Conversation | 102 |
Loose papers from the pages of Book Three | 104 | |
31 | The Wellspring with Light: Our Refuge | 107 |
32 | The Smoke and the Bees, the Honey. Another Dream of Eve's | 108 |
33 | The Seed of Paradise | 109 |
34 | The Clitoris | 111 |
35 | The Seeds, the Flower, an Angel, and Another | 113 |
36 | Clitoris Envy. The Penis. | 115 |
37 | We Poison Our Refuge | 117 |
Loose pages | 119 | |
38 | The River's Mud and Its Beasts | 125 |
39 | The Stink of Sulfur, the Rescue, Our Fence, the House-Tent | 127 |
40 | The Kitchen: Keeping Track of Time, the Pursuit of Pleasure, Decoration | 130 |
41 | Wanting Children. First Attempts | 132 |
42 | I Tell Our History on Stone, Adam Tells His Lie | 134 |
43 | More Attempts at a Child | 137 |
44 | Further Attempts | 138 |
45 | The Horse Is Born unto Them | 140 |
46 | Copying the Beasts, and What Happened When We Tried | 142 |
47 | Cain Arrives | 144 |
48 | Eve Calls to Adam | 145 |
49 | Eve Gathers the Creatures | 146 |
50 | Menstruation | 148 |
51 | Adam Said | 149 |
52 | Abel Arrives | 150 |
53 | The Thing Called Abel | 151 |
54 | Adah Is Born | 152 |
55 | Fraternal Rivalry | 153 |
56 | Adam and Abel Invent Prayer, and the Slaughterhouse | 154 |
57 | I Birth Two Daughters | 156 |
58 | There Are Almonds and Then There Are Almonds | 157 |
59 | Glazed Pottery, Jewelry | 158 |
60 | Adam's Dogged Lie | 159 |
61 | Earth's Strength | 161 |
Eve's loose papers, including the story of one of Eve's daughters | 162 | |
62 | Adah's Story | 181 |
63 | Cain and I See What We Didn't See | 187 |
64 | The Splinter of Bone | 190 |
65 | The Next Morning | 192 |
66 | The Offerings of Cain (the Tiller of the Soil) and of Abel (Shepherd) | 197 |
Loose pages, including the story of Lilith | ||
67 | Cain's Exile | 211 |
68 | Abel's Body | 212 |
69 | Barren Earth | 215 |
70 | Beer | 218 |
71 | The Dream of the Homunculi | 220 |
Mixed loose pages | 223 | |
72 | It Rained | 227 |
73 | Adam's Illness and Death | 228 |
74 | Eve's Flight from her Flock | 234 |
75 | Cain's City | 236 |
Loose papers (containing The Book of Cain, as well as others) | 238 | |
76 | Enoch in Nod | 259 |
77 | The Story of Lamech | 261 |
78 | What Became of Cain and Adah | 264 |
79 | Who Was Noah, Really? | 265 |
80 | More About Noah | 266 |
81 | With Noah, His Imaginary Flood and Ark | 267 |
82 | Escaping from Noah | 270 |
83 | Eve Alone on the Plain | 273 |
84 | Noah Divides the Land, Creating Princes | 274 |
85 | Nimrod | 276 |
86 | The Arrival of Nimrod's Hordes and Nimrod's Decree | 278 |
87 | The Tower of Babel and Our Great Dream | 279 |
88 | Opposition to the Tower | 283 |
89 | Surviving Babel. The New Cain | 285 |
90 | Eve Wonders | 289 |
91 | Eve's Laughter | 290 |