Austral

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Hay Festival Announces Bogotá39-2017 Anthology's Latin American Authors". Publishing Perspectives. 2017-05-08 . Retrieved 2017-08-30. Por otro lado, describe la incursión en algún lugar de Paraguay, de una colonia alemana que procura infructuosamente el resurgimiento de la raza aria. También una escritora europea que renuncia a sus raíces, intenta unirse a la lucha de los nativos latinoamericanos y pasados los años debido a una afasia va perdiendo su capacidad de lenguaje por lo que trata de plasmar sus últimas ideas en una especie de diccionario.

Austral is a tender and thoughtful exploration of the painful irony of being alive and our attempts to make sense of the past as well as the present. Carlos Fonseca has written a book that is like a beautiful maze where we can discover new treasures at each turn." A] wonderfully enigmatic novel . . . [ Natural History] reaches across continents and decades, touching on political movements and popular culture . . . With lush prose that owes a debt to translator Megan McDowell, Fonseca weaves the fictional threads of Giovanna’s life into a fabric of real history, grounding his story in events ranging from Sherman’s March to the Sea to the legal battle between sculptor Constantin Brâncuși and the American government that redefined ‘art’ at the turn of the 20th century . . . No detail in this book is superfluous.” Many characters in the book are in some form translators or creators engaged in solitary work, who ultimately give up language in favor of another activity or suffer from their contradictions and irremediable in-betweenness. This gives McDowell’s translation and critical responses to Austral the air of participation. One character ends up trapped in a web of duct tape in a sanatorium, as his brain gets entangled by the contradictions of the theory he dedicated his life to understanding.In Austral, Fonseca has created a profoundly literary project: to search for the traces of that journey of no return to who we used to be, and to leave a free and joyful record of his unexpected findings discoveries.” —Alia Trabucco Zerán, author of The Remainder

Julio, otuz küsur yıl önce Alicia ile birlikte çıktığı yolculuğu yarıda bırakmış olmanın suç­luluğundan kurtulmak isteği ile doludur. Aliza'nın rehberinin oğlundan yazara ait iki elyazmasına ulaşır. Bunlar “Şahsi Bir Dil” ile “Kaybın Lügatı”dır ve sembollerle, şifrelerle yazılmıştır. Üç bölümden oluşan “Cenup”un ilk iki bölümüne de adını verir bu belgeler. Kitabın üçüncü bölümünün adı “Bellek Tiyatrosu”dur. Juan de Paz Raymundo tarafından yaratılan bir projedir. Köyün hafızasını adeta bir müzeymiş gibi yeniden oluşturmayı amaçlayan bu projede askeri diktatörlükte şiddet ve çatışmalar görüp yakılıp yıkılan bir köy ele alınmaktadır. Tanıklıklar yeralmaktadır bu tiyatroda. Ve tanıklıklarda Aliza’dan bahsedilmektedir. Haklarında ne söylesem değerini azaltacak gibi hissettiğim birkaç anlamı birden sırtına yükleyen cümleler diziyor Forseca. I’m sure they got the wrong Gamboa,” he said with a laugh, not realizing the secretary had already left. Additionally, the start of many of our main character’s philosophical musings on the themes or revelatory insights into his dead friend seemed to me forced and far fetched. I didn’t necessarily buy into the way these connections were being made.

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Las tres historias reales hacen referencia a la colonia filonazi que una hermana de Nietzsche fundó, con su marido, en Paraguay, a finales del siglo XIX. La segunda es la sangrienta represión y casi exterminio de la población indígena, hace unas décadas, en Guatemala, por parte del siniestro general Efraín Ríos Montt. Y la tercera, la desaparición de una lengua. La ficticia tiene que ver con un libro inconcluso que la escritora (de origen judío) Aliza Abravanel, estaba escribiendo cuando murió, residiendo en una colonia de artistas, en el norte de Argentina. Estas cuatro líneas argumentales no estarían justificadas, si no fuera porque hay alguien que las vincula mediante un relato escrito en tercera persona. Ese alguien, Julio, es un narrador que curiosamente (y subrayo el adverbio) es presentado por una voz omnisciente, cuando lo más esperable hubiera sido la primera, dado el tono y el contenido con muchos tramos autobiográficos o confesionales. Hasta aquí todo hubiera funcionado perfectamente para mí. La escritura cuidadísima, precisa, matizada cuando hace falta, atenta siempre a los cambios de tercio de la novela. Pero hay un momento que servidor se pierde con las sorpresivas entradas en escena de personajes que arrastran una biografía y unas experiencias que tenemos que fijar, no sea que al final no sepamos por dónde vamos. Eso, no obstante, no hace mella en el tramo para mí mejor expuesto y justificado narrativamente. Me refiero a la novela inconclusa que Julio intercala en su relato (en tercera persona). Aquí la historia adquiere sentido narrativo, además de esa unidad estructural que estábamos extrañando en el conjunto de la novela. Aquí se narra una aventura personal y a la vez casi moral, la búsqueda de su lugar en el mundo de su narradora y protagonista y también del sentido de una búsqueda casi utópica, sin perder de vista el costado tenebroso que tienen las utopías.

Alicia Abravanel loses the power of speech. Olivia bitterly reports that the town’s gossips refer to Alicia as “The Mute”. She’s also referred to as “the mute gringa”. The opening of Austral has quoted Tranströmer and Canetti respectively on silence, excerpts: A wonderful meditation on language and memory, and surely a strong contender for the 2024 International Booker. In this innovative novel three losses and three quests are pursued. English writer Aliza Abravanel tries, in a battle with aphasia, to finish her book. A last indigenous speaker is confronted with the fading of his culture and language while an anthropologist struggles to prevent it. And through the construction of an esoteric theatre of memory, a survivor of the Guatemalan genocide of the 1970s and '80s seeks to recover the memories lost after the traumas of war. And behind these three threads lies the narrator's own story: Julio, a disillusioned university professor, must try to understand and complete his friend Aliza's novel, and come to terms with a past he shared with her but has blanked for thirty years.Reina, Elena (2016-11-28). "La FIL de Guadalajara celebra 30 años como la capital literaria de América Latina". EL PAÍS (in Spanish) . Retrieved 2017-08-30. In the same section, the photographer Ignacio Acosta learns of a study of hallucinated flowers called Fleurs imaginaires and decides to photograph real flowers in Araucaria. There he sees incinerated trees and turns these into paintings of flowers, which resemble a close-up of fungus on eucalyptus. The prose shifts subtly into the scientific before one realizes it is doing so: a kaleidoscopic psychedelia, a constant transition and translation of images and perceptions. Colonel Lágrimas - The White Review». The White Review (en inglés) . Consultado el 30 de agosto de 2017. Recall we are still within Alicia’s text that is within Austral. We are still in the land of italics…in the manuscript that Olivia declares may be fiction or memoir, leaving it to editor Julio to decide. “A long chain of narrators trying to understand by retelling a story…”