The Secret History of Costaguana - Softcover

Vásquez, Juan Gabriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408809877 ISBN 13: 9781408809877

Verlag: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2011

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Críticas:

'Vivid, forceful, masterly' (Guardian)

'A humorous, picaresque novel of adventure and a knowing take on a family saga' (Guardian)

'Juan Gabriel Vásquez is one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature.' (Mario Vargas Llosa)

Reseña del editor:

London, 1903. Joseph Conrad is struggling with his new novel ('I am placing it in South America in a Republic I call Costaguana'). Progress is slow and the great writer needs help from a native of the Caribbean coast of South America. José Altamirano, Colombian at birth, who has just arrived in London, answers the great writer's advertisement and tells him his life story. José has been witness to the most horrible things that a person or a country could suffer, and drags with him not just a guilty conscience but a story that has almost destroyed him.

But when Nostromo is published the following year José is outraged by what he reads: 'You've eliminated me from my own life. You, Joseph Conrad, have robbed me.' I waved the Weekly in the air again, and then threw it down on his desk. 'Here,' I whispered, my back to the thief, 'I do not exist.'

The Secret History of Costaguana, the second novel by Juan Gabriel Vásquez to be published in English, is José Altamirano's riposte to Joseph Conrad. It is a big novel, tragic and despairing, comic and insightful by turns, told by a bumptious narrator with a score to settle. It is Latin America's post-modern answer to Europe's modernist vision. It is a superb, joyful, thoughtful and rumbustious novel that will establish Juan Gabriel Vásquez's reputation as one of the leading novelists of his generation.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1408809877
• ISBN 13: 9781408809877
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320