Amuleto / Amulet

Roberto Bolano

Amuleto / Amulet
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Published
11 July 2017
Pages
128
ISBN
9780525435464

Amuleto / Amulet

Roberto Bolano

Amuleto es una obra menor, intimista, con una voz delirante que no ofrece contrapuntos, o que ofrece pocos contrapuntos. Es una obra de camara o de un solo instrumento. Eso si: de un solo instrumento, pero para alguien que sepa dar el callo con ese instrumento.
Roberto Bolano Auxilio Lacouture se considera a si misma la madre de todos los mexicanos y la madre de la poesia mexicana . Uruguaya de nacimiento, residente de Mexico D.F., abonada a los trabajos humildes y esporadicos durante el dia, incansablemente inmersa en la bohemia nocturna de la ciudad, todo cambia para ella el 18 de septiembre de 1968, cuando el ejercito toma posesion del campus de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico y ella queda encerrada en los banos de la facultad de filosofia y letras. A lo largo de trece dias de encierro y aislamiento forzado, por sus ojos transitan la poetisa Lilian Serpes, amante a su vez del Che Guevara; los poetas espanoles Leon Felipe y Pedro Garfias; el malogrado alter ego de Bolano Arturo Belano. De este modo, Auxilio reflexiona sobre la senda y los pasos dejados atras y los que, aun y cada vez mas, restan sumidos en las sombras de un pais de incierto futuro. Resenas:
El mito de Bolano ha servido para potenciar el reconocimiento de una obra donde habia originalidad, donde habia calidad.
Mario Vargas Llosa
De Roberto Bolano me gusta todo, sus grandes, inmensas novelas, pero tambien los relatos cortos.
Pedro Almodovar

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman’s voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano’s acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the Mother of Mexican Poetry, hanging out with the young poets in the cafes and bars of the University. She’s tall, thin, and blonde, and her favorite young poet in the 1970s is none other than Arturo Belano (Bolano’s fictional stand-in throughout his books). As well as her young poets, Auxilio recalls three remarkable women: the melancholic young philosopher Elena, the exiled Catalan painter Remedios Varo, and Lilian Serpas, a poet who once slept with Che Guevara. And in the course of her imaginary visit to the house of Remedios Varo, Auxilio sees an uncanny landscape, a kind of chasm. This chasm reappears in a vision at the end of the book: an army of children is marching toward it, singing as they go. The children are the idealistic young Latin Americans who came to maturity in the ‘70s, and the last words of the novel are: And that song is our amulet.

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