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Cargando... El país de las últimas cosas (1987)por Paul Auster
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Anna Blume cuenta, en una carta a su novio, enviada desde una ciudad sin nombre, lo que sucede en “El país de las últimas cosas”. Anna está allí para buscar a su hermano William, y describe una tierra en la que la búsqueda de la muerte ha reemplazado a los avatares y negocios de la vida: las clínicas de eutanasia y los clubes para el asesinato florecen, mientras que los atletas y corredores no se detienen hasta caer literalmente muertos de cansancio, y los saltadores se arrojan de los tejados. Pero Anna intentará sobrevivir en ese país devastado, donde todo lo que existe es posiblemente el último ejemplar de su especie…
In a book-length letter home, Anna Blume reports that her search for a long-lost brother has brought her to a vast, unnamed city that is undergoing a catastrophic economic decline. Buildings collapse daily, driving huge numbers of citizens into the streets, where they starve or die of exposureif they aren't murdered by other vagrants first. Government forces haul away the bodies, and licensed scavengers collect trash and precious human waste. Weird cults form around the most popular methods of suicide. Anna tries to help, but the charity group she joins quickly runs out of supplies and has to close its doors. A number of post-apocalyptic novels have been published recently; Auster's, one of the best, is distinguished by an uncanny grasp of the day-to-day realities of homelessness. This is a scary but highly relevant book. Imagine an American city in the near future, populated almost wholly by street dwellers, squatters in ruined buildings, scavengers for subsistence. Suicide clubs offer interesting ways to die, for a fee, but the rich have fled with their jewels, and those who are left survive on what little cash trade-in centers will give them for the day's pickings. This enthralling, dreamlike fable about a peculiarly recognizable society, now in the throes of entropy, focuses on the plight of a young woman, Anna Blume. Anna has memories of a gentler life, but comes to the city in a "charity ship" to hunt for her missing brother. She first finds shelter with a madman and his wife and later experiences a brief idyll with a writer, Samuel Farr.Together they live in the deteriorating splendor of the marbled public library. Promise is ultimately rekindled when the survivors consider taking to the road as magiciansan action implying that art and illusion can save. Auster, an accomplished stylist, creates a tone that deftly combines matter-of-factness and estrangement. The eerie quality is heightened by the device of a narrator who learns everything from Anna's journal. Listas de sobresalientes
En el país de las últimas cosas todo tiende al caos, los edificios y las calles desaparecen, y no hay nacimientos. La existencia se reduce a la mera supervivencia de vidas miserables sin «ni siquiera la esperanza de recuperar la esperanza». Anna Blume cuenta en una larga carta su paso por la ciudad, en busca de su hermano desaparecido, y su afán por vivir, a pesar de todo, en este ambiente devastado del final de la civilización. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosFound: YA? Dystopian Fantasy, Running forever until they died? en Name that Book Cubiertas populares
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