Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo / Diary of the War of the Pig

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country
Spain
Published
21 March 2023
Pages
224
ISBN
9788466360296

Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo / Diary of the War of the Pig

Adolfo Bioy Casares

La cuarta novela de Adolfo Bioy Casares, una historia fantastica con estremecedoras resonancias politicas.

Publicada en 1969, bajo la dictadura de Juan Carlos Ongania, Diario de la guerra del cerdo narra en clave semifantastica un enfrentamiento entre jovenes y viejos en el barrio porteno de Palermo, suscitado por un inexplicable odio intergeneracional. De la noche a la manana, unas pandillas de jovenes violentos empiezan a atacar a ancianos y gente de edad, lo que trastoca la existencia del protagonista. Sus reacciones y la ambientacion son realistas, pero el autor examina la cotidianidad a la luz de la fantasia y lo siniestro. Con sus numerosas alusiones a la realidad politica de su epoca, la novela se ha leido como una alegoria del principio de la guerrilla y la represion de Estado en la Argentina.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Adolfo Bioy Casares’ fourth novel, a fantasy tale with chilling political resonance.

Published in 1969 under Juan Carlos Ongania’s dictatorship, Diary of the War of the Pig makes use of a semi-fantasy code to chronicle a confrontation between young and old in the port district of Palermo, prompted by an inexplicable intergenerational hatred. Overnight, gangs of violent youngsters begin to attack old people and seniors, disrupting the protagonist’s existence. Their reactions and environment are realistic, but the author examines everyday life under the light of the fantastic and the sinister. With numerous references to the political reality of the time, the novel has been read as an allegory for the origins of the guerilla and state repression in Argentina.

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