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Yo soy el Mandrake : Crónicas brutalistas / J.M. Servín

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Servín, J. M. (Juan Manuel), 1962-
Contributor:
Piccato, Pablo, writer of prologue.
Language:
English
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Crime and the press--Mexico.
Crime and the press.
Gonzo journalism--Mexico.
Gonzo journalism.
Physical Description:
173 pages ; 21 cm
Edition:
Primera edición
Place of Publication:
Monterrey, Nuevo León, México : Oficio / 2024.
Summary:
"'Estas crónicas no necesitan la descripción fotográfica o la pirotecnia verbal para acogerse al legado del nuevo periodismo de Tom Wolfe o Hunter Thompson. Servín tampoco recurre a los mecanismos literarios del ensayo, donde la autoridad del autor se basa, primero que nada, en la prosa hermoseada. Este libro no explica pero formula sentencias inapelables. Tampoco trata de encontrarle algo sublime a la violencia o algún secreto estético en la cultura popular. Es una mirada contreras, no un proyecto de interpretación trascendente o esencial de lo mexicano. Yo soy el Mandrake efectivamente desciende de la nota roja mexicana, pero no en el modo pornográfico y moralista en la que, según sus críticos cultos, la han leído la mayoría de los lectores de periódicos del último siglo. Los habitantes de la ciudad son protagonistas de la nota roja como Mandrakes, víctimas o cómplices. Hay expertos académicos que dicen que la nota roja es un mecanismo de control social o, por el contrario, una expresión de la resistencia cotidiana al poder. Servín la reconoce por lo que es, el sarcástico registro de una realidad inhóspita.' - Pablo Piccato" -- Back cover.
"'These chronicles don't require the photographic detail or verbal pyrotechnics of Tom Wolfe or Hunter Thompson's 'new journalism' to claim their place within that legacy. Servín also avoids the literary devices of the essay, where the author's authority is primarily based on ornate prose. This book doesn't offer explanations, but rather delivers definitive pronouncements. Nor does it attempt to find something sublime in violence or some hidden aesthetic value in popular culture. It's a contrarian perspective, not a grand or essentialist interpretation of Mexican culture. 'I Am Mandrake' indeed descends from the Mexican crime reporting tradition, but not in the pornographic and moralistic way that, according to its academic critics, most newspaper readers of the last century have interpreted it. The city's inhabitants are the protagonists of these crime stories, like Mandrakes—victims or accomplices. Some academic experts claim that crime reporting is a mechanism of social control or, conversely, an expression of everyday resistance to power. Servín recognizes it for what it is: the sardonic record of an inhospitable reality.' - Pablo Piccato" -- Back cover, cataloger's translation.
Notes:
"Prólogo: Pablo Piccato" -- Cover.
Back cover ISBN shared with OCLC 1468525502.
Title page verso ISBN invalid.
ISBN:
9786076964903
6076964901
OCLC:
1542783687

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