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portada Cuentas pendientes (in Spanish)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Topic
Novela
Collection
NARRATIVAS HISPÁNICAS
Year
2018
Language
Spanish
Pages
184
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22 x 14 cm
ISBN
8433972081
ISBN13
9788433972088
Edition No.
1
Categories

Cuentas pendientes (in Spanish)

Martín Kohan (Author) · ANAGRAMA · Paperback

Cuentas pendientes (in Spanish) - Martín Kohan

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Synopsis "Cuentas pendientes (in Spanish)"

Cuanta desgracia, cuanto infortunio, cuantas desdichas pueden llegar a caber en la vida de un hombre sencillo? Cuentas pendientes se resuelve por una apuesta de maxima: el retrato de una vida en la que el fracaso lo alcanza todo. Porque no hay cosa en la patetica rutina de Gimenez, el protagonista aparente de esta novela, que no merezca la mayor compasion. Lo que sucede es que el narrador que se ocupa de el no le tiene nunca ninguna. Lejos de cualquier pietismo social y de las justas proporciones del realismo, se vale de las desmesuras del grotesco para ensanarse con el. El giro de las cosas en Cuentas pendientes alterara, sin embargo, esta disposicion. Porque las novelas que se ocupan de vidas apagadas o penosas suelen alentar esta promesa: la del poder liberador de la imaginacion, la del poder de compensacion de la propia literatura. Y lo que Martin Kohan (que gano con Ciencias morales, tan celebrada, el Premio Herralde de Novela en 2007) explora en este libro es una opcion diferente: la de la imaginacion como condena y como agobio; la de la literatura como reducto, ella misma, de una ultima desesperacion. / How much misfortune and despair can fit into the life of a simple man? To Do Lists is a portrait of a life in which failure touches everything. There is nothing in the pathetic routine of Giménez, this books protagonist, which does not deserve the highest degree of compassion. The thing is, the narrator responsible for him doesnt have a drop of it. Novels which deal with spiritless and terrible lives usually encourage a promise of the liberating power of the imagination. What Martin Kohan explores in this book is a different option: that of imagination as punishment, and literature as a stronghold of the last vestiges of desperation.

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