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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Thousand Deaths Plus Onedi Sergio Ramírez
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Alternating chapters where the author writes in the first person with others written by an impersonal narrator (that tends to become less impersonal until he materializes as a written text given to the author) this book is centered on the life of a (fictional?) nicaraguan photographer, and through his life and that of his father, one is guided in an amazing litterary journey through the history of mid nineteen century Nicaragua, and then to a trip across the european continent where one meets the strange court of archduke Luis Salvador, Flaubert and Turgueniev, Chopin and George Sand, and on... A novel where is difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction, a job certainly not made easier by the author's use of photographs scattered all over the book, a la Sebalb. A very enjoyable book. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"A Thousand Deaths Plus One" is the narrative of a search for the lost history of an obscure Nicaraguan photographer named Juan Castellón. In 1987, the author/narrator, while on an state visit to Poland, happened upon an exhibition of hitherto unknown photographs by Castellón, who had pursued a career in Europe between roughly 1870 and 1940. The discovery initiates an obsessive quest to recover the lost artist's history¿a quest that eventually carries the author from Vienna to Mallorca with points in between as he sifts through a trove of documentary evidence concerning a raffish cast of European and Central American characters. In alternating chapters Castellón offers his own story, from his bizarre conception in Nicaragua, to his education in France, to his nights of serious drinking with Rubén Darío, and lastly to a compromised finale in Nazi Germany. The result is a novel that may be said to personify the tragi-comic history of Nicaragua. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)863.64Literature Spanish and Portuguese Spanish fiction 20th Century 1945-2000Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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