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Pacazo is the story of John Segovia, an American historian in Piura, on the desert coast of Peru, where the real and the surreal intermix. Then his life and the city were destroyed. John's wife was murdered, and his search for the killer takes place amidst the storms of El Niño.
The narrative pull is frustrated, albeit by design. There is the debut novelist's desire to put in everything; the reader is forewarned by seven epigraphs before the story even begins. Kesey is a maximalist, and Pacazo is thickly glossed with exotic language.
Yet when it comes to immersing the reader, this lack of restraint often works.
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"(I)t is an ever-living, ever-working Chaos of Being, wherein shape after shape bodies itself forth from innumerable elements." --Thomas Carlyle, "On History"
"The foxes of the Sechura Desert howl like demons when night falls, and do you know why? To break the silence that terrifies them." --Mario Vargas Llosa, The Time of the Hero
"The solution is elegant -- but how laborious, how costly, and how fragile!" --Paul Ricoeur, Time and Narrative
"It's good to laugh," he said, "but there are some things one must never forget: that even the mouths of children will one day fill with maggots, forexample, and that the house of the master will be turned into a cabaret by his disciples." --Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Men and Bottles.
"(I)t is often overlooked that the conviction that one can make sense of history stands on the same level of epistemic plausibility as the conviction that it makes no sense whatsoever." --Hayden White, The Content of the Form
"The terrors, what a luxury for the imagination." --Julio Cortázar
"(T)he oldest act in the intellectual history of the human race: the hunter squatting on the ground, studying the tracks of his quarry." --Carlo Ginzburg, "Clues: Roots of an Evidential Paradigm"
Dedicatoria
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
para mi pacaza, y mis dos pacacitos
Primeras palabras
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Here you must be so careful.
Citas
Últimas palabras
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Now the trumpets sound, the downhill charge, the slaughter, thousands, a short sharp ascent, a curve and before us the edge, we slide to it and across and before us the same long wide valley, and Jauja, a lake of golden light, but look, the glow is steady, not fire but cradled streetlights, we lower toward them, and a thousand miles away the pacazo wakes.
Pacazo is the story of John Segovia, an American historian in Piura, on the desert coast of Peru, where the real and the surreal intermix. Then his life and the city were destroyed. John's wife was murdered, and his search for the killer takes place amidst the storms of El Niño.
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