The Night / The Night (Spanish Edition)
Language: Spanish
Published by Alfaguara, 2016
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- Title
- The Night / The Night (Spanish Edition)
- Author
- Calderon, Rodrigo Blanco
- Publisher
- Alfaguara
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- very_good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- Spanish
- ISBN 10
- 8420419451
- ISBN 13
- 9788420419459
Premio Rive Gauche (Francia)
Premio de la Crítica (Venezuela)
Una fábula sobre la Venezuela de hoy, por Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, el autor revelación en la literatura latinoamericana de los últimos años.
«Estoy convencido de que todo el mal del mundo empieza en ellas. En las palabras.»
Caracas 2010. La crisis energética es aprovechada por el gobierno revolucionario para decretar cortes eléctricos que, durante horas, funden a negro todo el país. En esos lapsos de tiempo, Venezuela parece retroceder en la historia hacia una nueva Edad de Piedra que se filtra por todas las rendijas. En medio de esta atmósfera, dos amigos, un escritor frustrado y un psiquiatra acostumbrado a involucrarse en la vida de sus pacientes, conversan sobre una serie de crímenes ocurridos en el último año.
Pedro Álamo, otro de los personajes de esta novela polifónica, busca obsesivamente en los juegos de palabras -los que crea y los que sueña de su admirado Darío Lancini- la clave para entender el desquiciado mundo en el que vive. Como si buscara convertir la realidad en algo diferente cambiando el orden de los elementos que la forman, intentando encontrar así su exacto significado.
Literatura, rock, sueños, violencia, política, amor, ausencias y miedos se entremezclan en la mente de los protagonistas. Abren laberintos, crean encrucijadas y producen cortocircuitos vitales. Con esta historia en la que todo parece caminar al borde del delirio. Donde la Venezuela actual se ve reflejada en un espejo atravesado por sombras apocalípticas y sus habitantes se enfrentan al destino que les aguarda inexorable; sea este el cumplimiento de sus obsesiones o la muerte.
Sobre el autor se ha dicho...
«Utiliza recursos de ironía, parodia, juegos de lenguaje. Ofrece una lectura profunda donde explora la escritura y el dilema de la creación.»
Jurado del Concurso de Cuentos de El Nacional
«Al leer los relatos de Rodrigo Blanco Calderón uno alberga la nostalgia por esos días ya remotos en que uno leía por leer; en que uno leía porque se le antojaba y lo que se le antojaba, al punto de desarrollar una fruición por la literatura que cualquiera asociaría a una adicción.»
El Mundo, Venezuela.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A fable about modern-day Venezuela by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, the recent breakout author in Latin American literature. "I am convinced that all the evil in the world begins in them: in words." (Caracas, 2010). The energy crisis is taken advantage of by the revolutionary government in order to demand electrical outages that leave the entire country in darkness for hours. In those lapses of time, Venezuela seems to go back in time to a new Stone Age that seeps into every crevice.
In the middle of this atmosphere, two friends, a frustrated writer and a psychiatrist accustomed to getting involved in the lives of his patients, discuss a series of crimes that have occurred in the last year. Pedro Álamo, another of the characters in this polyphonic novel, searches obsessively in word games—those he creates and those he dreams up from his admired Darío Lancini—for the key to understand the mad world in which he lives. As if searching to convert reality in to something different by changing the order of its elements, and thus trying to find its exact meaning. Literature, rock, dreams, violence, politics, love, absence, and fear all mingle in the minds of the protagonists.
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