La superficie mas honda / The Deepest Surface

Emiliano Monge

La superficie mas honda / The Deepest Surface
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country
Spain
Published
27 June 2017
Pages
162
ISBN
9786073149815

La superficie mas honda / The Deepest Surface

Emiliano Monge

De Emiliano Monge, autor de Las tierras arrasadas, ganadora del IX Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Elena Poniatowska.

Los once cuentos reunidos en este libro dibujan el fantasma de una constelacion. Y el signo que preside esta constelacion es el de la Violencia.

La superficie mas honda es un bestiario del hombre como lobo de si mismo: de la arida intimidad del terror familiar hasta la voracidad de un linchamiento, fisico o mediatico, la ira y la erosion son aqui las soberanas. Como si los personajes fueran peones de una voluntad vaporosa pero total, el destino personal y el devenir social actuan en estos relatos como una fuerza anonima que lo ordena todo. Es decir: que lo disuelve todo.

Con un estilo implacable, Emiliano Monge construye precisas atmosferas de opresion. Desde las primeras palabras de cada cuento, se insinua una vaguedad acechante, un vacio que se expande feroz hasta llevar a los microuniversos a su disolucion final. Agujeros negros de ironia se abren por todas partes, pero en este caso el humor no ofrece un alivio o una salida, sino que hace aun mas profunda la corrosion. Personajes -y lectores- se descubren sospechando que quizas nunca han estado aqui, en esta delgada profundidad que llamamos mundo, y al final no queda mas consuelo que el de la desbandada. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

By Emiliano Monge, author of Las tierras arrasadas, winner of the 9th Elena Poniatowska Iberoamerican Novel Prize. The eleven short stories gathered in this book depict the ghost of a constellation. And the ruling sign of this constellation is that of Violence.

The Deepest Surface is a bestiary of man as the wolf himself: from the dry intimacy of familiar terror to the voracity of a lynching-either physical or by the media-here, wrath and erosion are king. As if the characters were pawns of some diaphanous will, personal destiny and social transformation act in these tales like an anonymous force that arranges everything. That is to say: it dissolves everything. With a merciless style, Emiliano Monge constructs precise atmospheres of oppression. From the first words in each story, a lurking vagueness insinuates itself, an emptiness that expands ferociously until it pushes the microuniverses to their final dissolution. Black holes of irony open up all around, but in this case humor doesn’t offer relief or a way out, but rather makes the corrosion more profound. Characters-and readers-discover themselves suspecting that perhaps they have never been here, in this thin depth that we call the world, and in the end there is no solace but that of escape.

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