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- Title
- MANTRA
- Author
- RODRIGO FRES¡N
- Publisher
- PLAZA & JANS
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Usado- bueno
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- Spanish
- ISBN 10
- 8439724179
- ISBN 13
- 9788439724179
Una radiografía de México D.F., ciudad novela, vista a través de los ojos de sus frenéticos protagonistas encabezados por Martín Mantra, director de cine y miembro de una demencial familia mexicana abducida por una telenovela.
¿Qué tienen en común un nostálgico tumor cerebral, un espectro obsesionado por los luchadores enmascarados observando su vida y su muerte por televisión desde un inframundo azteca, y un hipotético androide en ruinas?
La simple respuesta a este complejo interrogante es: a) México Distrito Federal, metrópoli apocalíptica donde todo lo que puede llegar a ocurrir y no ocurrir indefectiblemente ocurre; b) la misteriosa sombra de Martín Mantra: director de cine prodigio en busca del film total, líder guerrillero, mesías flamígero, tótem religioso, y, antes que nada, miembro de una demencial familia mexicana abducida por una telenovela; y c) películas malas y buenas revoluciones, comida picante y aire contaminado, pirámides antiguas y modernos aeropuertos, madres sufridas y padres alucinados, turistas célebres y mariachis anónimos, día de los muertos y noche de los vivos, sangre derramada y tequila en las venas.
Todo esto y mucho más en una ciudad de novela y en la novela de esas ciudad.
La crítica ha dicho:
«Pocas novelas tan apasionantes he leído en los últimos años. Con Mantra es con la que más me he reído, la que me ha parecido más virtuosa y al mismo tiempo más gamberra; su carga de melancolía es inagotable, pero siempre está asociada al fenómeno estético, nunca a la cursilería ni al sentimentalismo siempre en boga en la literatura en lengua española. Es una novela sobre México, pero en realidad, como toda gran novela, de lo que verdaderamente trata es sobre el paso del tiempo, sobre la posibilidad e imposibilidad de los sueños. Y también trata, en un plano casi secreto, sobre el arte de hacer literatura, aunque muy pocos se den cuenta de eso.»
Roberto Bolaño
«Fresán ha escrito una novela deslumbrante sobre México DF, tanto como la propia ciudad.»
Rosa Mora, El País
Un fresco melodramático de indiscutible y perturbador vigor literario.»
Letras Libres
«Rodrigo Fresán es un escritor maravilloso.»
John Banville
«Resulta imposible señalar los títulos más significativos de Fresán porque lo son todos.»
J.A. Masoliver Ródenas
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About the Author
Rodrigo Fresán nació en Buenos Aires en 1963 y vive en Barcelona desde 1999. Es autor de los libros Historia argentina, Vidas de santos, Trabajos manuales, Esperanto, La velocidad de las cosas, Mantra (Premio Nuevo Talento Fnac 2002), Jardines de Kensington (Premio Lateral de Narrativa 2004, finalista Premio Fundación José Manuel Lara), El fondo del cielo (Locus Magazine Favorite Speculative Fiction in Translation Novel 2018, USA) y del tríptico La Parte Contada, compuesto por La parte inventada (Best Translated Book Award 2018, USA), La parte soñada y La parte recordada.
El jurado de Best Translated Book Award alabó La parte inventada con la citación: «Fresán es un maestro». En 2017, Fresán recibió en Francia el Prix Roger Caillois a la totalidad de su obra por ser un «escritor atípico, transgresor e ineludible».
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