Origin: Spain
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Vida de Pablo = Paul Life (in Spanish)
Pardo, Carlos
Synopsis "Vida de Pablo = Paul Life (in Spanish)"
This novel can be read as the generational chronicle of a youth condemned to marginality in the leisure industry, but also as a book that witnesses with curiosity the cooling off of friendship. Pablo is a young artist from a small city in southern Spain who has replaced his brushes with his bar. The narrator, an arrogant young poet, decides to become his biographer and sets out to create a picaresque portrait of Pablo and the characters that surround him, all of whom are one step away from social marginalization. But several digressions won't allow him to finish his biography, beginning with the most important digression of all: love. What was sure to be a novel about sex, drugs, and rock and roll becomes a demystified narration of a first love with all of its ups and downs. A Bildungsroman that captures the vitality and rhythm of 18th-century literature but with completely modern topics and narrative methods, this book combines various styles such as the picaresque and philosophical contemplation, which explore the ambiguous limits that separate biography from fiction. Esta novela puede leerse como la crónica generacional de una juventud condenada a la marginalidad en la industria del ocio, pero también como un libro que asiste con curiosidad al fenómeno del enfriamiento de la amistad. Pablo es un joven artista de una pequeña ciudad del sur de España que ha sustituido los pinceles por su bar. El narrador, un joven poeta arrogante, decide convertirse en su biógrafo y emprende un retrato picaresco de Pablo y de los personajes que lo rodean, todos a un paso de la marginación social. Pero varias digresiones le impiden llevar a cabo su biografía, empezando por la digresión más importante: el amor. Lo que prometía ser una novela de sexo, drogas y rocanrol se transforma en la narración desmitificada de un primer amor con altibajos. Una novela de formación que recupera la vivacidad y el ritmo de la literatura del siglo XVIII pero llevada a una temática y modos narrativos completamente actuales, este libro mezcla varios registros que van de la picaresca a la divagación filosófica y que exploran los borrosos límites que separan a la biografía de la ficción.
