sábado, 24 de octubre de 2009
delicias del autogoogleo
NEW INTERNATIONALITS . Y esto sobre mi participación en la librería Foyles de Londres
By Cecilia Szperling. Translated from the Spanish byOscar Luna.
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- Aflame Books ISBN 9781906300081
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- http://www.aflamebooks.com
The central characters in Cecilia Szperling’s novel are not easy to warm to. Ernestina, Cosme and Pablo are middle-class Argentineans unable to find their role in a system that is disintegrating, both economically and morally, and turning on itself. They are art school dropouts, spoilt, corrupt and drug-addled; plugging themselves into the trashiest elements of popular culture and imagining their self-indulgence to be an art form, they drift through their days at the margins of society, expecting nothing and contributing nothing.
The book begins with a vicious assault on Ernestina's affluent, conformist sister, Emma, by Cosme and Pablo. This almost-motiveless act of violence resonates through the narrative and sets the tone of random brutality justified as self-expression. The trio embark on a doomed spree of drug-taking and sexual adventure through the seamy underbelly of Argentina and Uruguay, a journey that brings them into contact with similarly lost souls and damaged personalities, including a heroin-addicted psychiatrist and a psychopathic anaesthetist.
Drawing on Freudian dream theory and the principles of Darwinian selection, Szperling's short, punchy novel paints a vivid pen-portrait of the savage and amoral nature of this stratum of Argentinean society. Although at times lacking in focus and overly fond of clunky symbolism, the book is a dramatic demonstration of what ensues when a population is cut adrift from its certainties and attempts to fill a cultural void with synthetic pleasures, with inevitable bleak and chilling consequences.
PW
viernes, 23 de octubre de 2009
jueves, 22 de octubre de 2009
anoche barbitangas en la Kermese del Capitán Intriga
lulú y pato colaboran con el ensobramiento de barbitangas. Genial ocurrencia del Capitán Intriga serían entragados sobres a cada asistente que los abrirían con el 1, 2, 3....!!! y cada uno se llevo su tanga de recuerdo!!!
pato se pone su barbitanga en medio de Dadá.
gabriel y chica del público arriesgada que subió al escenario. abajo chico del público arriesgado que se subió al escenario llamado pablo. tommy barban festejando las anécdotas de la noche.
miércoles, 21 de octubre de 2009
Es hoy!!! Kermese de los blogs con encuentro barbitangueano
