La alcoba dormida
Mexico City: UNAM, (Col. Confabuladores), 2000. first edition. Paperback. Prologue by Alvaro Enrigue, 259p., wrps(small stain on front cover). Fine. Item #7280
ISBN: 9683678130
Selected by the author himself, the ten stories gathered here make up a particular retrospective of the work of this Mexican writer in which his unique and complex. Narrative territory is man and his condition of wandering animal, free of a world of invisible geographies but surrounded by his intellect. In the investigation of the private, Villoro creates a universe of difficulties, real or imagined, whose outcomes often do not exist or are there to be discovered not only by the reader but by their own characters and even by the same author, who has said who writes from an image retained in his memory - as if it were a photograph - he does not know what he is responding to and what needs to be explained. In this way, with a social outlook close to Elias Canettiy with a febrile narrative pulse like that of Jack Kerouac, the stories in this anthology range from a furious expressive freedom - like that of the first stories - to a serene narrative maturity - like the of the last-. In short, the warp of these texts is a good mirror of its author, a man whose nocturnal howl, like that of the coyotes of his country, is heard even after the book is closed.
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