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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. La desesperación y el alcohol corren por la garganta de Jorge hasta alcanzar el núcleo reparador, el sosiego. La vida le ha extirpado la voluntad y ya son dieciocho las veces que ha estado ingresado en la unidad de alcohólicos. Entre el reportaje y la ficción novelesca, su día a día fluye y se transforma de un continuo letargo de ebriedad en una afirmación vitalista. La pregunta «¿por qué no bebes?» encuentra su respuesta en el bálsamo del que Jorge toma sus fuerzas para abandonar la bebida, su «último amor antes de morir». sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"Pilch's prose is masterful, and the bulk ofThe Mighty Angel evokes the same numb, floating sensation as a bottle of Zloldkowa Gorzka."--L Magazine The Mighty Angel concerns the alcoholic misadventures of a writer named Jerzy. Eighteen times he's woken up in rehab. Eighteen times he's been released--a sober and, more or less, healthy man--after treatment at the hands of the stern therapist Moses Alias I Alcohol. And eighteen times he's stopped off at the liquor store on the way home, to pick up the supplies that are necessary to help him face his return to a ruined apartment. While he's in rehab, Jerzy collects the stories of his fellow alcoholics--Don Juan the Rib, The Most Wanted Terrorist in the World, the Sugar King, the Queen of Kent, the Hero of Socialist Labor--in an effort to tell the universal, and particular, story of the alcoholic, and to discover the motivations and drives that underlie the alcoholic's behavior. A simultaneously tragic, comic, and touching novel,The Mighty Angel displays Pilch's caustic humor, ferocious intelligence, and unparalleled mastery of storytelling. Jerzy Pilch is one of Poland's most important contemporary writers and journalists. In addition to his long-running satirical newspaper column, Pilch has published several novels, and has been nominated for Poland's prestigious NIKE Literary Award four times; he finally won the Award in 2001 forThe Mighty Angel. His novels have been translated into numerous languages. Bill Johnston is Director of the Polish Studies Center at Indiana University and has translated works by Witold Gombrowicz, Magdalena Tulli, Wieslaw Mysliwski, and others. He won the Best Translated Book Award in 2012 and the inaugural Found in Translation Award in 2008. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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