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Oráculo / Álvaro Bisama

LIBRA PQ8098.412.I82 O73 2025
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bisama, Álvaro, 1975-
Series:
Biblioteca breve (Bogotá, Colombia)
Seix Barral Biblioteca Breve
Language:
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Chilean fiction--21st century.
Chilean fiction.
Physical Description:
366 pages ; 23 cm.
Edition:
Premera edición
Place of Publication:
Bogotá : Seix Barral, 2025.
Summary:
"Oráculo es una novela que se despliega y repliega como un cosmos. Un cosmos que aparece y desaparece, una realidad que se filtra en la nuestra. Una casa - que no obedece a las leyes del tiempo ni del espacio - es el umbral hacia otro mundo, alterno y horroroso. Compuesta de relatos que confunden lo histórico con lo ominoso, en la novela se entremezclan foros de internet, diarios, cartas y voces que transitan el presente y el pasado mientras se cruzan con cosmonautas perdidos, imbunches, piratas, autómatas, poetas modernistas, ladrones y archivistas melancólicos. Como en las obras de Borges o Piglia, la ficción se funde con el testimonio y la especulación, mientras que la presencia de lo fantástico y lo gótico se conecta con textos que van de William Blake a W. G. Sebald, de la ciencia ficción soviética a la crónica urbana, retomando y reinventado motivos clásicos - la casa, los monstruos y los cuerpos, el archivo, el exilio - para inscribirlos en un presente marcado por la amenaza y lo inexplicable." -- Back cover.
"Oracle is a novel that unfolds and unfolds like a cosmos. A cosmos that appears and disappears, a reality that seeps into our own. A house—which obeys neither the laws of time nor space—is the threshold to another world, alternate and horrifying. Composed of stories that blur the lines between the historical and the ominous, the novel interweaves internet forums, diaries, letters, and voices that traverse the present and the past while intersecting with lost cosmonauts, imbunches, pirates, automatons, modernist poets, thieves, and melancholic archivists. As in the works of Borges or Piglia, fiction merges with testimony and speculation, while the presence of the fantastic and the gothic connects with texts ranging from William Blake to W. G. Sebald, from Soviet science fiction to urban chronicles, revisiting and reinventing classic motifs—the house, monsters and bodies, the archive, exile—to inscribe them in a 'A present marked by threat and the inexplicable.'" -- Back cover, cataloger's translation.
Contents:
Repertorio Americano
Un Escalofrío de Párajo me Sacude los Hombros
Demografía Gótica
La Casa de la Luna Muerta
Tierra Mala.
ISBN:
9786287816282
6287816287
OCLC:
1580958057

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