París (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Giralt Torrente, Marcos

Genre Fiction

Editorial Anagrama

Con la unica ayuda de la memoria, el narrador de esta novela emprende la tarea de explicarse a si mismo acontecimnientos de su niñez que en su momento no supo entender. De esa forma, todo lo que le dejo huellas, se muestra ahora en sus diferentes dimensiones, incluidas aquellas que tal vez solo imagina. Premoniciones, deudas inesperadas, equivocaciones, remordimientos, etc., salen a la luz y hallan acomodo, sin contradecirse, en ese territorio donde el recuerdo de lo que fuimos se mezcla con la nostalgia de lo que ya nunca seremos, donde pasados que no nos pertenecen amenazan con condicionar nuestro presente. Historia de silencios en la que lo que no se dice tiene tanta importancia como lo que se dice.

Dramas & Plays

Toda narracion, incluso aquella que pretende imitar la vida, es una ficcion. Un artificio. Partiendo de esta premisa, Giralt Torrente se enfrenta en este relato intimo a un tema universal: la muerte del padre. Reconstruye la relacion con su padre, el tiempo de vida que compartio con el, con asombroso afan de fidelidad. Sin eludir las zonas de penumbra, pero sin recrearse en ellas. De esa forma, con ayuda de una prosa hipnotica y concisa, la propia experiencia se transforma en experiencia de todos. El resultado es un libro conmovedor que abraza y golpea a un tiempo. Ni un homenaje ni un ajuste de cuentas. Un intento de comprender la relacion mas compleja que cabe entre dos personas. El retrato de un padre y un hijo. Un inventario de vida en el que casi nada se calla y en el que, por eso, aparece la vida tal y como es: con sus tristezas y encrucijadas pero tambien con sus jubilosos descubrimientos. / All writing, even that which imitates life, is a fiction. A trick. Using this as his premise, Giralt Torrente confronts a universal theme in this intimate story: the death of his father. He reconstructs the relationship with his father, the times in life he shared with him, with a surprising eagerness for faithfulness. He does not avoid the shadows but neither does he recreate the story from within them. In this way, with the help of hypnotic and concise prose, this experience turns into everybodys experience. The result is a moving book which embraces and punches you at once.

Tiempo de vida (Spanish Edition)

Contemporary

Mudar de piel

El final del amor (Voces: Literatura / Voices: Literature) (Spanish Edition)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Páginas de Espuma

Paris depicts a man’s journey through the labyrinth of his memories, a search for his origins that will uncover an old family secret and turn his world upside down. A mesmerizing and haunting story by award-winning author Marcos Giralt Torrente, a master craftsman calibrating nuance and impact with a true gift. The unnamed narrator reflects on the marriage between his mother (aloof, stoic, saintly, and stubborn) and his father (a vain, promiscuous scoundrel). He is fixated on eight mysterious months his mother spent in Paris after they split up, when the narrator was a boy: Did she clandestinely reunite with the father? Did she live out a perennial ambition carefully kept secret? Or did she attempt to sort out another matter entirely, of which the narrator hasn’t the least indication? If he discovers what happened in Paris he might make sense of his parents’ relationship, and, in the process, end the nightmares that still recur twenty-plus years after his parents split up.

Paris

Literary

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