| Book Number |
DB132742
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| Title |
Insensatez
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| Names |
Castellanos Moya, Horacio.
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| Medium |
Digital Book
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| Language |
Spanish
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| Annotation |
"An alcoholic, atheist, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to edit the testimonies of the survivors of slaughtered Indian villages. The writer's job is to tidy up the 1,100 page report: "that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and giving a manicure to the Catholic hands that were piously getting ready to squeeze the balls of the military tiger." Mesmerized by the eerie poetry of the Indians' phrases, the increasingly agitated and frightened writer is endangered twice over: by the spell exerted over his somewhat tenuous sanity by the strangely beautiful heart-rending voices, and by real danger. The Church is hunting the military, but the military is still in charge of the country, and our booze-soaked writer is soon among the hunted -- or is he paranoid? Or is he paranoid and one of the hunted?"-- Provided by publisher. -- Descriptions of sex and some strong language. Spanish language.
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"Sin pensárselo dos veces, y sin prever hasta qué punto esa decisión cambiará su vida, el protagonista de Insensatez acepta un comprometido encargo de su amigo Erick: revisar la versión final de un informe que consigna el genocidio padecido por los pueblos indígenas de un país centroamericano. Así, instalado en una exigua habitación del arzobispado de la ciudad, el protagonista se enfrenta a más de mil cuartillas que reproducen denuncias de supervivientes y testigos. Atisba entonces un horror que lo fascina y abruma, pues en los textos que va leyendo encuentra metáforas, giros y dislocaciones de lenguaje que recrean vívidamente matanzas y actos de crueldad que, de otro modo, serían inexpresables. Al margen de esa ingente tarea, sin embargo, transcurre la realidad cotidiana del protagonista, una realidad a veces frívola y promiscua que contrasta con la sensación de acoso y peligro que lo invade y con su obsesión por una violencia que podría convertirse en su infierno." -- Proporcionada por la editorial. -- Contiene algo de lenguaje ofensivo y descripciones de índole sexual.
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| LC Subject |
Genocide - Central America - Fiction
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Indians of Central America - Crimes against - Fiction
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Fiction
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Novels
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Psychological fiction
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Social problem fiction
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Psychological fiction
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| Audience Notes |
Contains descriptions of sex. NLS/BPH
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Contains some strong language. NLS/BPH
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| Local Subject |
Fiction - FI
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International Language - FL
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Titles in Spanish - F-SPA
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| Audience Notes |
Contains some descriptions of sex. NLS/BPH
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| Title Status |
In Process
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