#1 Los 7 locos segun EE.UU.
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Copio debajo la sinopsis de Los 7 locos de la editorial yanqui, tal como aparece en Amazon.com. Va directamente en inglés, esperando que alguien quiera traducirla (aunque no valga el tiempo empleado más que como nota de color). La antepenúltima oración me dejó especialmente pasmado... Todo bien con la hermenéutica, el papel interpretativo del lector y la mar en coche, pero... ¿no les da la impresión de que los yanquis se abusaron un poco?
Criticar, por supuesto, que antes de siquiera leer las primeras páginas alguien te diga que Los 7 locos es la historia de la venganza de Erdosain ante la metida de cuernos de su mujer (
) sería demasiado sutil.
"El Astrólogo, con su admiración tanto por el KKK como por los bolcheviques, es tal vez la creación más terrible de Arlt, y una prefiguración shockeante de Juan Perón, 15 años antes de que alguien oyera del futuro dictador." :fuck_u:
Salu2!
Copio debajo la sinopsis de Los 7 locos de la editorial yanqui, tal como aparece en Amazon.com. Va directamente en inglés, esperando que alguien quiera traducirla (aunque no valga el tiempo empleado más que como nota de color). La antepenúltima oración me dejó especialmente pasmado... Todo bien con la hermenéutica, el papel interpretativo del lector y la mar en coche, pero... ¿no les da la impresión de que los yanquis se abusaron un poco?
Criticar, por supuesto, que antes de siquiera leer las primeras páginas alguien te diga que Los 7 locos es la historia de la venganza de Erdosain ante la metida de cuernos de su mujer (
) sería demasiado sutil. From Publishers Weekly
Arlt (1900-1942) was an Argentinian writer of the '20s and '30s whose work was unheralded during his lifetime. Now it is recognized as a seminal influence on Argentinian modernism. In translating Arlt's best-known novel, written in 1929, Caistor notes that he has retained the "incoherencies" of Arlt's hurried prose, but the power of Arlt's vision remains strong. The protagonist, Remo Erdosain, is an inventor and a crank. His search for 600 pesos to pay back the sugar company he swindled leads to the kidnapping and supposed murder of his wife's cousin, Gregorio Barsut. The most sinister of Erdosain's friends is the Astrologer, a messianic terrorist. One of the Astrologer's followers, a pimp known as "The Melancholy Thug," gives Erdosain the money to pay back his employers, but the embezzlement suddenly seems like a minor problem compared to Erdosain's spiritual deterioration. When Erdosain's wife runs off with an army captain, he plots with the Astrologer to kidnap and kill Barsut. Erdosain wants revenge, and the Astrologer wants to use Barsut's money to buy a brothel. As Erdosian's fantasies blur into reality, we are treated to a world reminiscent of the intense Georg Grosz paintings of sex murderers. The Astrologer, with his enthusiasm for both the KKK and Bolshevism, is perhaps Arlt's most frightening creation, and a shocking prefiguration of Juan Peron, 15 years before anyone had heard of the dictator-to-be. Arlt's magnum opus will lure new readers into a keenly rendered dystopia where official facts and psychic fictions tend to change places. His dark imagination uncannily foretold the impending political milieu.
Arlt (1900-1942) was an Argentinian writer of the '20s and '30s whose work was unheralded during his lifetime. Now it is recognized as a seminal influence on Argentinian modernism. In translating Arlt's best-known novel, written in 1929, Caistor notes that he has retained the "incoherencies" of Arlt's hurried prose, but the power of Arlt's vision remains strong. The protagonist, Remo Erdosain, is an inventor and a crank. His search for 600 pesos to pay back the sugar company he swindled leads to the kidnapping and supposed murder of his wife's cousin, Gregorio Barsut. The most sinister of Erdosain's friends is the Astrologer, a messianic terrorist. One of the Astrologer's followers, a pimp known as "The Melancholy Thug," gives Erdosain the money to pay back his employers, but the embezzlement suddenly seems like a minor problem compared to Erdosain's spiritual deterioration. When Erdosain's wife runs off with an army captain, he plots with the Astrologer to kidnap and kill Barsut. Erdosain wants revenge, and the Astrologer wants to use Barsut's money to buy a brothel. As Erdosian's fantasies blur into reality, we are treated to a world reminiscent of the intense Georg Grosz paintings of sex murderers. The Astrologer, with his enthusiasm for both the KKK and Bolshevism, is perhaps Arlt's most frightening creation, and a shocking prefiguration of Juan Peron, 15 years before anyone had heard of the dictator-to-be. Arlt's magnum opus will lure new readers into a keenly rendered dystopia where official facts and psychic fictions tend to change places. His dark imagination uncannily foretold the impending political milieu.
"El Astrólogo, con su admiración tanto por el KKK como por los bolcheviques, es tal vez la creación más terrible de Arlt, y una prefiguración shockeante de Juan Perón, 15 años antes de que alguien oyera del futuro dictador." :fuck_u:
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