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Cargando... The Mutations (2016 original; edición 2019)por Jorge Comensal (Autor), Charlotte Whittle (Traductor)
Información de la obraThe Mutations : A Novel por Jorge Comensal (2016)
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  poingu | Feb 22, 2020 |   by Jorge Comensal Translated from Spanish: Charlotte Whittle 2019 Farrar Straus &Giroux 2.8 / 5.0 A lawyer in Mexico City is diagnosed with an aggressive form of tongue cancer. A man that made his legacy by speaking, the diagnosis was a complete change for him. It is satirical and comedic, a good look at how cancer affects the family, medical professionals, co-workers and is somewhat provoking as well as thought-provoking. The "faggot" references and "faggot with AIDS" I hope were made to metaphorically, (a man no longer able to swing his bigotry). If not for the confusing, and really unnecessary gay slurs, I have given this 4 stars. (  ) over.the.edge | Feb 3, 2020 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: "Jorge Comensal's The Mutations oscillates masterfully between comedy and tragedy, gathering up in its pages a stupendous panoply of characters before whom the reader is never sure whether to smile in sympathy or pity." ?Fernando Aramburu, author of Homeland Ramón Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when cancer of the tongue deprives him of the source of his power and livelihood: speech. The Mutations, by Jorge Comensal, is a comedy tracing the metastasis of Ramón's cancer through his body and in the lives of his family members, colleagues, and doctors, dissecting the experience of illness and mapping the relationships both strengthened and frayed by its wake. Mateo and Paulina, his teenage children, struggle with the temptations of masturbation and binge eating, respectively. Ramón's melancholic oncologist is haunted by the memory of a young patient whom he was unable to save. His selfish pathologist believes Ramón's tumor holds the key to a major scientific breakthrough. And then there's Elodia, Ramón's pious maid, who brings him a foulmouthed parrot as a birthday gift. This lewd bird becomes Ramón's companion, confidant, and unlikely double. Paying homage to the works of forebears such as Sontag, Didion, Flaubert, and Tolstoy, and filled with a rough-hewn poetry of regret, rage, and finally resignation, The Mutations offers a profound but funny cross section of modern Mexican life, as well as a bold treatment of an unspeakable yet universal No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This is a hard novel to pay attention to, to the level it demands to be paid attention to, and yet it rewards your attention absolutely. On a sentence level it's beautiful. On a story level it's fragmentary, snatching you away again and again from a story line you want to stay in and leaping away into another scene, other characters. Thematically it tackles a fundamental question in life: how a person faces death, and makes sense of his/her own mortality. It's a brave book because Comensal never allows the least bit of romanticization, or faith in the world to come, or any other thing to distract the reader from the fragmentary, absurd way we humans go about dying. A tough, rewarding read. (