Overview
Aparecidos, desaparecidos, desaparecedores profesionales y amateurs, Mickey Mouse, Eva Perón, golpes de Estado, estados depresivos, Estados Unidos, tiempo tormentoso, truenos y rayos, hiperconductividad, gurkhas, Lawrence de Arabia, primera persona, tercera persona, gauchos minimalistas, variaciones Goldberg, montoneros, rock & roll, la calavera de Mozart, inexactitudes biográficas, ciencias exactas, dulce de leche, drogas duras, yuppies en caída, catástrofes aéreas, ninfas posmodernas, naufragios, islas Malvinas, colegios ingleses, gastronomía hindú, astucias aztecas, campeones mundiales, sueños recurrentes, canciones de moda, prostitutas ilustres, árboles sin nombre, novelas perdidas, exilio, un prócer amnésico, un escritor que recuerda demasiadas cosas, la imposibilidad de cambiar la historia y el relativo consuelo de poder contarla de otra manera...
Como ha escrito Ignacio Echeverría, «la impredecible fortuna de un libro como Historia argentina, con su estética pop, con su estilo sincopado y melodioso, con su sincretismo sentimental, invitaba a señalarlo como manual de instrucciones a partir del cual pergeñar el patrón de una literatura mutante».
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
With Argentine History, his first book (which purportedly contains the root of all his subsequent books), Rodrigo Fresán caused a shockwave and was considered the flag bearer of what is called Young Argentine Fiction. Apparitions, disappearances, professional and amateur kidnappers, Mickey Mouse, Eva Perón, coups d’état, depressive states, United States, stormy weather, thunder and lightning, hyperconductivity, Gurkhas, Lawrence of Arabia, first person, third person, minimalist gauchos, Goldberg variations, street gangs, rock & roll, Mozart’s skull, biographical inaccuracies, exact sciences, dulce de leche, hard drugs, yuppies in decline, air disasters, postmodern nymphs, shipwrecks, the Falkland Islands, English schools, Indian cuisine, Aztec cunning, world champions, recurring dreams, popular songs, distinguished prostitutes, nameless trees, lost novels, exile, an amnesiac hero, a writer who remembers too many things, the impossibility of changing the story and the relative solace of being able to tell it in another way…
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