Overview
«Bienvenidos a un Mundo Enfermo, una historia de terror que no lo parecerá.» Pere Ortín
En este libro, una especie de autobiografía en clave viajera, Diego Enrique Osorno prueba su compromiso radical con la crónica y presenta una serie de testimonios y experiencias que conforman en conjunto una reflexión crítica y plural del siglo xxi. Así es como el lector recorre Cuba, Noruega, Israel, Palestina, Brasil, Italia, Venezuela, Líbano, Islas Caimán, Siria, Francia, Estados Unidos, España, China y México para observar un mosaico tan diverso como intenso de personalidades y acontecimientos. De esta forma, viajamos por lugares y momentos probables e improbables mediante la mirada de un autor que lo mismo ha observado y documentado la parte humilde y anónima del planeta, que ha entrevistado y perfilado a millonarios como Carlos Slim, guerrilleros como el subcomandante Marcos, artistas como Gael García, políticos como Carlos Salinas de Gortari y capos como Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo.
En cada uno de los textos de Mundo enfermo prevalece el mismo fondo aventurero: la obsesión por la otredad, aun en medio de las señales apocalípticas del nuevo milenio. Al final, con la crónica que da pie al título, se vuelve evidente el desafío que significa leer una obra así en tiempos tan catastróficos: un libro en el que la pasión por vivir prevalece a pesar de todo.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
“Welcome to a Sick World, a horror story that won’t seem like one.” —Pere Ortín
In this book, a kind of autobiography in a traveler’s key, Diego Enrique Osorno demonstrates his radical commitment to chronicle writing and presents a series of testimonies and experiences that together form a critical and plural reflection on the twenty-first century. Readers journey through Cuba, Norway, Israel, Palestine, Brazil, Italy, Venezuela, Lebanon, the Cayman Islands, Syria, France, the United States, Spain, China, and Mexico to observe a mosaic of personalities and events as diverse as they are intense. In this way, we travel through likely and unlikely places and moments through the gaze of an author who has observed and documented both the humble and anonymous parts of the planet, as well as interviewed and profiled millionaires like Carlos Slim, guerrilla leaders like Subcomandante Marcos, artists like Gael García, politicians like Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and kingpins like Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo.
In each of the texts of Sick World the same adventurous spirit prevails: an obsession with otherness, even amid the apocalyptic signs of the new millennium. In the end, with the chronicle that gives the book its title, it becomes evident what a challenge it is to read such a work in times as catastrophic as these: a book in which the passion for living prevails despite everything.
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