From the dropped pronouns in Christina MacSweeney’s artful translation to the mysterious absence of Verónica’s mother, we learn that “the things we can’t see don’t hide themselves in the shades of gray, or in the white or black, but on the fine line separating those two totalities.” Here is a reluctant testament to the fact that beginnings and ends are never as streamlined as we would like them to be life is riddled with false starts and false summits, and exists only in the border lines that must be drawn to become visible.

Consistently innovative and heartrendingly reflective, Bicecci provides a satisfying slice-of-life story despite leaving so much unanswered. Though Empty Set may reduce Verónica’s world to labels and diagrams, the novel is anything but reductionist. Correction: shards,” into linear narrative. In a rewrite of Ren Magrittes Les mots et les images, Vernica Gerber Bicecci (translated by Christina MacSweeney) considers images that think and the.

Through Observation Reports, drawings, and bold strokes, Verónica attempts to organize “a set emptying out little by little. In short, pithy bursts, she offers up details of interactions with lovers, family, animals, and the dead, and everywhere she finds incomprehensible clues to a mystery whose very nature is itself unknown: the rings in trees, the gifts her cat brings her through the window, email chains, uncrackable codes in abstract paintings. Kirkus Gerber Biceccis experimental novel takes a unique approach to topics like debilitating loneliness, political repression, and epistemological. Vernica Gerber Bicecci, Christina MacSweeney (Translator), Marie NDiaye. Verónica Gerber Bicecci’s most popular book is Conjunto vacío. Victoria Baena is the author of Visible (5.00 avg rating, 1 rating, 1 review). EMPTY SET, BY VERÓNICA GERBER BICECCI, TRANSLATED BY CHRISTINA MACSWEENEYĮmpty Set is a marvel of form Verónica Gerber Bicecci charts her narrator (also Verónica)’s struggle through a maze of confounding relationships with diagrammatic renderings of the same, offering a visual perspective on her subject that perfectly captures a young woman’s desperate search for connection and meaning in life’s looming trivialities. Verónica Gerber Bicecci has 26 books on Goodreads with 9501 ratings.

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