Overview
Lemebel. La belleza de una literatura feroz.
De perlas y cicatrices, publicado por primera vez en 1998, reúne una serie de crónicas que retratan a un triste repertorio de personajes del jet set nacional de los años ochenta y noventa que deambulaban por escenarios polvorientos intentando convertirse en estrellas. Asimismo, los semidioses de la farándula criolla son desacralizados en estas páginas y expuestos junto a las víctimas, villanos y cómplices de la dictadura, completando una triste galería de figuras que se resisten a quedar en el olvido.
«Este libro viene de un proceso, juicio público y gargajeado Nuremberg a personajes cómplices del horror. Para ellos techo de vidrio, trizado por el develaje póstumo de su oportunista silencio, homenajes tardíos a otros, quizás todavía húmedos en la vejación de sus costras. Retratos, atmósferas, paisajes, perlas y cicatrices que eslabonan la reciente memoria, aún recuperable, todavía entumida en la concha cicatriz de su tibia garra testimonial», comenta el autor.
El efecto granada de estas crónicas diarias, al aparecer reunidas en formato libro, se vuelve un arsenal donde el sentido del humor maléfico no logra apaciguar el asco y la angustia que provoca. Volver a oír su voz es una chance de recorrer el lado B de la historia chilena del siglo XX con la guía de una lengua viva y un acento perturbador.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Lemebel. The beauty of a fierce literature.
De perlas y cicatrices ( Of Pearls and Scars), first published in 1998, brings together a series of chronicles portraying a sad cast of characters from Chile’s high society and entertainment circles of the 1980s and 1990s, wandering through dusty stages in search of stardom. The demi-gods of local celebrity culture are also dethroned in these pages, exposed alongside the victims, villains, and accomplices of the dictatorship, forming a somber gallery of figures that refuse to fade into oblivion.
“This book emerges from a process, a public trial, a spat-out Nuremberg directed at those who were complicit in horror. For them, glass ceilings shattered by the posthumous unveiling of their opportunistic silence, belated tributes to others, perhaps still damp from the humiliation of their wounds. Portraits, atmospheres, landscapes, pearls and scars linked together in recent memory, still recoverable, still numb within the scarred shell of its fragile testimonial claw,” writes the author.
The explosive impact of these daily chronicles, gathered here in book form, becomes an arsenal in which a wicked sense of humor cannot soften the disgust and anguish it provokes. To hear Lemebel’s voice again is an opportunity to explore the hidden side of twentieth-century Chilean history, guided by a living language and a deeply unsettling voice.
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