« Herbert escribe memorias? Ensayos? Novelas? Sus libros son mash-ups de recuerdos, investigaci?n y ornamentaci?n ficcional, marcados por una c?lida falta de respeto por los g?neros –como es la vida . —The New York Times
Regresa uno de los escritores mexicanos m?s talentosos y reconocidos de la actualidad con un libro de cr?nicas transgresor.
One of the most talented and recognized Mexican writers of today returns with a transgressive book of chronicles. If, like Alfonso Reyes said, “The essay is the centaur of genres”, then the chronicle would be a more exotic or wild half-breed: the griffin of literature. In that regard, this book is a cage without bars where some of those creatures roam: from the withered eternity of Acapulco and the calling of Mazatl?n as a food court for the soul; to rockstar for a season in the desert and a stolen souvenir of the 2006 World Cup in Germany that the author took from an ex-lover of his girlfriend; from a hotel in Shanghai where the oldest jazz band in the world plays and the visit of the Queen of England to La Paz, Baja California Sur; to the brutal murder of a Chilean teenager in the Maule Region and a freehand portrait of El Fiscal de Hierro, a persecutor of suicide guerrilla fighters, Marxist homeopaths and narco-matriarchal gangs, the man who led the fight against organized crime in the seventies in Nuevo Laredo. The eight narratives of this book produce a fortunate attempt in literature: going from the intimate to the general and vice versa. They also remind us that there are no promises without a hangover.
Author: Julián Herbert
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House
Published: 04/25/2023
Pages: 168
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.20w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9788439737452
Language: Spanish







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