La isla del segundo rostro
Language: Spanish
Published by Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona, 2006
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En rústica, traducción de Joaquín Adsuar Ortega, 925 pgs. Vigoleis y su inseparable compañera Beatrice, exiliados voluntarios del nazismo en auge, desembarcan en Mallorca en 1931 para visitar a un cuñado supuestamente moribundo. Sus maletas han desaparecido, y el cuñado goza de buena salud. Así empieza esta novela autobiográfica, en la que el autor, «don Vito», con una pasmosa truculencia verbal y narrativa, desgrana sus vivencias en la isla a través de todo tipo de peripecias y de situaciones disparatadas, intercalando comentarios dictados por un humor mordaz que aplica a sí mismo y a su entorno. Al mismo tiempo, esboza un retrato de la época, hasta el estallido de la guerra civil, una comedia humana en la que desfilan innumerables personajes de la fauna autóctona -picaros, contrabandistas, prostitutas, anarquistas, un judío erotómano, un grande de España místico, escritores como los hermanos Lorenzo y Miguel Villalonga- y extranjeros ilustres -Keyserling, Robert Graves. El humor y el verbo profuso y disparatado, la diversidad de tonos, el barroquismo en suma de esta novela, suerte de odisea bufa sobre una época llena de malos presagios, obra insolente y satírica y a la vez desgarradora, traducen todo el amor que pueda sentir por la humanidad un gran pesimista. «Una muestra excepcional de la literatura alemana del exilio de entreguerras» (Justo Navarro). «Un pesimista absoluto, dotado de una gran lucidez, y su pretensión es divenirse contando las cosas del mundo, burlarse de todos y de todo, incluidos, muy especialmente, él mismo y su compañera de fatigas. Todo un novelón, espléndidamente traducido, por cierto» (Ramón Sánchez Lizarralde, El Mundo). «Esta novela ocupa por derecho propio un lugar destacado en la literatura: entre Cervantes, Grimmelshausen y el Tristram Shandy de Laurence Sterne» (Siiddeutsche Zeitung). «Este libro, una de las grandes novelas del siglo XX, sigue conservando, ahora que se reedita, al cabo de veinticinco años, toda su frescura, pero adquiere mayor profundidad» (Rheinische Post). «Con El hombre sin atributos, de Musil, constituye la otra gran novela alemana de mediados de este siglo» (Thomas Ferenczi, Le Monde). Alberr Vigoleis Thelen (1903-1989) nació en Süchteln, Baja Renania. Emigró de Alemania en 1931, pasando por Holanda, y residió en Mallorca, de donde huyó a Portugal al iniciarse la guerra civil. En 1947 regresó a Holanda y en 1954 se instaló en Suiza. La isla del segundo rostro, tras un período de silenciamiento, fue redescubierta en 1982 y aclamada como una de las obras maestras del siglo XX.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- La isla del segundo rostro
- Author
- Albert Vigoleis Thelen
- Publisher
- Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Bien
- Binding
- Encuadernación de tapa blanda
- Language
- Spanish
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