Bailarinas Muertas
Language: Spanish
Published by Anagrama, Editorial S.A., 1996
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- Title
- Bailarinas Muertas
- Author
- A Soler
- Publisher
- Anagrama, Editorial S.A.
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- Spanish
- ISBN 10
- 8433910426
- ISBN 13
- 9788433910424
La educación sentimental de un adolescente como una batalla en la que se recibe un bautismo de fuego.
Un cabaret en el que nadie se llama como dice llamarse, un escenario enmarcado por cortinas de terciopelo rojo en el que las bailarinas van cayendo muertas con un alegre sonido de lentejuelas y tambores.
El Trompeta, con su carácter de músico rebelde al que le horroriza que lo confundan con un oficinista; el camarero Álvarez, secretamente enamorado de Gregory Peck; el boxeador Kid Padilla, un combate-una derrota; el chino Bonilla, amante de la zarzuela y mago de sobrenombre Chin Lu; el eterno suicida Cosme Cosme siempre jugando a la ruleta rusa con su viejo revólver... Una amplia gama de personajes girando en la fulgurante Barcelona de los años sesenta, alrededor de la intensa historia de amor que protagonizan Soledad Rubí, una joven bailarina recién llegada al cabaret, el empresario Mauricio Céspedes y el fotógrafo Félix Rovira, atrapados estos últimos por los encantos de esa misteriosa bailarina en la que se mezclan la inocencia y la perversidad, el dulce olor de los campos de trigo y la sensualidad más descarnada.
Todo ello es observado en la distancia por un niño al que su hermano, bailarín que aspira a convertirse en estrella del espectáculo, no deja de enviarle cartas y fotografías desde el corazón de ese cabaret del Paralelo barcelonés en el que noche tras noche se reproduce el universo humano. El mundo del adolescente se ve invadido de este modo por una serie de pasiones y turbios amores que, provocándole pavor y deseo, le anuncian el bullicioso laberinto de la vida, el fragor de una batalla en la que él está a punto de recibir su bautismo de fuego.
Con esta extraordinaria novela, Antonio Soler, que en su libro anterior, Los héroes de la frontera, ya nos había brindado «una muy notable muestra de literatura en estado puro», en palabras de Caballero Bonald, se consagra como uno de los mejores escritores de su generación.
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About the Author
Antonio Soler nació en Málaga en 1956. Ha sido guionista de televisión y colaborador de prensa; sus relatos han obtenido los premios Jauja, Ignacio Aldecoa y Ateneo de Valladolid. Es el autor del libro de relatos Extranjeros en la noche (1992) y de las novelas Modelo de pasión (Premio Andalucía, 1993) y Los héroes de la frontera (Premio Andalucía de la Crítica, 1995), publicada en esta colección, que tuvo excelentes reseñas: «Una buena novela y un magnífico escritor» (Rafael Ballesteros, Letra lnternacional); «Su escritura recuerda al Lazarillo, a Pascual Duarte, incluso al Goodfellas de Scorsese. Ahí es nada» (Enrique Turpin, Lateral); «Logra que imágenes y textos vayan de la mano logrando un texto que nos cautiva, que se lee de un tirón» (Fernando Valls, El Mundo); «Un recorrido por el lado salvaje de la vida narrado con una escritura fascinante» (El País); «Una muy notable muestra de literatura en estado puro» (J. M. Caballero Bonald).
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