El chiste de Dios: Cuentos
Buenos Aires: Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 2019. First Edition. Paperback. 99p., indices, wrps. New. Item #76449
ISBN: 9789874434814
Luisa Valenzuela, famous in the art of leading the reader through the labyrinths of suspense and qualifying scenes where her humor plant gives unexpected smiles. "A two-sided mission is this one to narrate, a mandate at times festive even though the hands of the person operating the keyboard draw shadows." Prolific writer of fascinating novels and short stories, in El joke de Dios proposes us the challenge of intuiting where her characters go, by what registers the stories become, what are the debates between the figure of the narrator, the author and their protagonists. As if it were a dice game in which chance incidents for moments and for moments gives space to the plot, Luisa Valenzuela flies over the intervals of the imagination - taking a detour to preconceived expectations - to invite her adventurous dance with the language: there where language is feasible to strip the lyrics, without forgetting the value of meaning and nonsense. Pure documented invention, because if something characterizes our author is her ability to sift the tones of fire and spread them in that witty amalgam half fiction, half "reality" of a unique narrative. Liliana Heer Originality, intelligence, audacity and a humor that always conjures up sadness and misfortune in time. Luisa Valenzuela's stories form a unique treasure in Latin American literature. Leopoldo BrizuelaLuisa Valenzuela, winner of the 2019 Carlos Fuentes Prize, practiced journalism simultaneously with literature, has published more than thirty books. His latest novels are La travesía; The morning; The Sardinian mask, the deep secret of Perón. His essays include Dangerous Words; Writing and secrecy; Cortázar-Fuentes, Intercrossings. In the microfiction collections we point out Brevs, complete micro-stories to date; Villain game; Zoological zoos. The Alfaguara publishing house published in 2007 the volume Cuentos Completos y uno más, considered classics by critics. In 2018, the Fondo de Cultura Económica published its ABC of microfbles, illustrated by Lorenzo Amengual. Luisa Valenzuela has been translated into more than fifteen languages and appears in countless international anthologies. He received important awards and various conferences were held around his work, both in the United States and Mexico and in Vienna and Buenos Aires. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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