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Cargando... Canción de tumba (2011)por Julián Herbert
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I just couldn't get into this book. It might have been better to read it on a Kindle where I could look up all the different words I didn't know. After reading other's people reviews I decided to not finish this book. I feel like I've read a lot of death bed books lately (Fever Dream) and I didn't need to finish this one. This book was too weird for me. The author is a character in his own novel (I hate that!), and per the back cover this book "inhabit[s] the fertile ground between fiction, memoir, and essay". I disagree, that's not fertile ground. I love novels, I love memoirs, and I occasionally read essays--but I prefer them all distinct. In this novel Herbert is tracing his mother's death from leukemia. The time he spends in hospital with her, and her decline. He also discusses growing up with her and his half siblings--mom was a prostitute, so they moved a lot. Now he is a writer, and he travels to Cuba and Germany. Or does he? Are these fever dreams or drug/alcohol induced "memories"? Are his friends real or fake--he seems confused himself. Is Herbert the character an unreliable narrator? Does that mean Herbert the author is too? Are these other characters really his family and co-workers, or is he the only real person in here? It's all so confusing, and mostly it is too confusing to be interesting. Perhaps it would be more interesting with an IRL book club--or maybe it would just be argumentative. I think I might enjoy a memoir or essays by Herbert. But not a novel. Tomb Song is the story of a man sitting in his mother's hospital room, waiting for her to die. She was a prostitute and his life involved a lot of temporary fathers and moving around. Sounds like a book seeped in misery, doesn't it? Despite the scaffolding, Julián Herbert has written a surprisingly upbeat and honest novel. This isn't a book propelled forward by the plot; it digresses, it heads off onto tangents, it meanders, returning to earlier topics, while abandoning others. The narrator waits. He cares for his mother. He follows often conflicting instructions from the nurses and doctors. He walks the halls, and thinks about his past, from his childhood to the trips he took to Berlin with his wife. Parts of the story are fascinating, some were less enthralling. The writing style of this novel reminded me of another Mexican novel, Valeria Luiselli's The Story of My Teeth, although that may also be influenced by having the same translator. If you like discursive novels, you'll want to take a look at Tomb Song. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
La vida de Guadalupe Chávez, prostituta enferma de leucemia, narrada con mucho amor y crudeza por su hijo escritor. Canción de tumba narra la azarosa vida de Guadalupe Chávez, prostituta y madre del narrador que, a lo largo del libro, se encamina hacia la muerte, víctima de la leucemia. La enfermedad de Guadalupe impone al protagonista un ejercicio autobiográfico que le llevará a sumergirse en su infancia y su juventud, al tiempo que indaga en la compleja relación con su madre, con sus propios hijos y con su país, México, asolado por la corrupción, la violencia y la destrucción. Pero, a pesar de lo autobiográfico, Canción de tumba trasciende lo autorreferencial gracias a que hay en ella una clara preocupación por el método de escritura, la verdadera ciencia secreta de la literatura. Por otro lado, son varias y muy destacadas las novelas de autores españoles e hispanoamericanos publicadas recientemente y señaladas por la crítica que tratan de padres e hijos, o más bien de la relación de los hijos con sus padres en un determinado contexto. La novela de Julián Herbert saca esqueletos del armario, crea una voz narrativa genuina y febril, dibuja un México desalmado poblado por personajes que ya forman parte de lo mejor de la literatura en español. Canción de tumba es poesía, música y una lectura inagotable. Reseñas: «En Canción de Tumba , el siglo XXI nos respira en la nuca con su aliento más fiero. Novela descarnada, pero sabia y poética en su crudeza, se mueve en la línea de El desbarrancadero , de Fernando Vallejo. Creo que no hay en castellano nadie tan genialmente contemporáneo como Julián Herbert.» Laura Restrepo «Es la suya una escritura áspera y hermosa al mismo tiempo, una épica sin héroes que hace añicos el tejado de vidrio de la hipocresía.» Iván de la Nuez, Babelia No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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