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by Julián Herbert (Author)
« Herbert escribe memorias? Ensayos? Novelas? Sus libros son mash-ups de recuerdos, investigación y ornamentación ficcional, marcados por una cálida falta de respeto por los géneros --como es la vida . --The New York Times
Regresa uno de los escritores mexicanos más talentosos y reconocidos de la actualidad con un libro de crónicas transgresor.
One of the most talented and recognized Mexican writers of today returns with a transgressive book of chronicles. If, like Alfonso Reyes said, "The essay is the centaur of genres", then the chronicle would be a more exotic or wild half-breed: the griffin of literature. In that regard, this book is a cage without bars where some of those creatures roam: from the withered eternity of Acapulco and the calling of Mazatlán as a food court for the soul; to rockstar for a season in the desert and a stolen souvenir of the 2006 World Cup in Germany that the author took from an ex-lover of his girlfriend; from a hotel in Shanghai where the oldest jazz band in the world plays and the visit of the Queen of England to La Paz, Baja California Sur; to the brutal murder of a Chilean teenager in the Maule Region and a freehand portrait of El Fiscal de Hierro, a persecutor of suicide guerrilla fighters, Marxist homeopaths and narco-matriarchal gangs, the man who led the fight against organized crime in the seventies in Nuevo Laredo. The eight narratives of this book produce a fortunate attempt in literature: going from the intimate to the general and vice versa. They also remind us that there are no promises without a hangover.
Author Biography
JULIÁN HERBERT (Acapulco, 1971) es poeta, ensayista y narrador. Obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Literatura Gilberto Owen (2003), la Presea Manuel Acuña (2004), el Premio Nacional de Cuento Juan José Arreola (2006), el Premio Nacional de Cuento Agustín Yáñez (2008; compartido con León Plascencia Ñol). Su novela Canción de tumba recibió el Premio Jaén de Novela 2011 y el Premio de Novela Elena Poniatowska 2012. Algunos de sus cuentos y poemas se han publicado en diversos idiomas. Es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.
