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Todo lo de cristal / Rafael Pérez Gay.

LIBRA PQ7298.26.E698 T63 2023
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pérez Gay, Rafael, 1957- author.
Contributor:
Planeta (Firm : Mexico City, Mexico), publisher.
Editorial Seix Barral.
Series:
Biblioteca breve (Mexico City, Mexico)
Seix Barral Biblioteca breve
Language:
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Memory--Fiction.
Memory.
Reminiscing--Fiction.
Reminiscing.
Families--Mexico--Mexico City--20th century--Fiction.
Families.
Genre:
Novels
Novels.
Autobiographical fiction.
Physical Description:
166 pages ; 23 cm
Edition:
Primera edición.
Place of Publication:
Ciudad de México : Seix Barral, 2023
Language Note:
En español = In Spanish.
Summary:
"Miramos el mundo una sola vez, en la infancia. Lo demás es memoria», escribió Louise Glück. De eso trata este informe nocturno, como le llama el protagonista al recorrido por los lugares en los cuales vivió con su familia. Los reyes de la mudanza van y vienen por las distintas casas y departamentos de alquiler mientras la vida pasa en un camión cargado de enseres domésticos y ocurre la Ciudad de México en los años sesenta. Un hombre adulto busca en la hemeroteca los hechos del pasado mientras un niño acompaña a su familia en los agobios de dinero, las adversidades cotidianas, la alegría de un campo de futbol, los primeros conocimientos de la calle. Magnética y sobrecogedora, «Todo lo de cristal» es una demostración de que recordar no es un acto pasivo, sino una forma de reconstruir; la memoria no es inexacta, sino creativa. La fuerza emotiva y la naturalidad prosística de Rafael Pérez Gay han logrado en este libro restaurar el pasado una vez más para mostrarnos el niño que fuimos un día." -- Back cover.
"We look at the world only once, in childhood. The rest is memory,” wrote Louise Glück. That's what this night report is about, as the protagonist calls the tour of the places where he lived with his family. The moving kings come and go through the different rental houses and apartments while life goes by in a truck loaded with household goods, happening in Mexico City in the 1960's. An adult man searches the newspaper archive for the events of the past while a child accompanies his family in the stress from money, the daily adversities, the joy of a soccer field, the first knowledge of the street. Magnetic and overwhelming, "Everything in Glass" is a demonstration that remembering is not a passive act, but a way of reconstructing; Memory is not inaccurate, but creative. The emotional force and prose naturalness of Rafael Pérez Gay have managed to restore the past once again in this book to show us the child we once were." -- cataloger's translation
ISBN:
9786073904957
6073904959
OCLC:
1400972419

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