Name: Vida con mi viuda (in Spanish)
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Author: José Agustín
ISBN: 9786073817196

Type

Physical Book

Author

José Agustín

Publisher

Debolsillo

Year

2022

Language

Spanish

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.8x12.4x2.2 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9786073817196

Edited in

México

Synopsis "Vida con mi viuda (in Spanish)"

Una novela provocadora y divertida, perturbadora y enigmática, profunda y vital. Premio Mazatlán de Literatura 2005, Vida con mi viuda cuenta una historia de una muerte y todo lo que en torno a ésta puede desatarse. Vida con mi viuda es un juego de espejos donde lo real se desdibuja con el soplo de lo intangible y lo inexistente cobra vida en el lecho mismo de la muerte. Una historia de misterio tan provocadora y divertida como perturbadora y enigmática, donde el personaje principal, casado con una chamana indígena de Oaxaca, ve morir a un hombre idéntico a sí mismo. En el momento en el que se extingue el último aliento del extraño, el protagonista de esta trama profunda y vital decide intercambiar identidades. Desea saber qué harán su esposa y sus hijos cuando él esté muerto. Lo que no imagina es que también tendrá que adquirir los terribles compromisos del hombre cuya identidad adoptó. Premio Mazatlán de Literatura 2005, Vida con mi viuda confirma a José Agustín como una de las voces más grandes, originales y profundas de la literatura mexicana contemporánea, un autor en posesión absoluta de su arte. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A provoking and amusing novel, both unsettling and enigmatic, profound and vivid. Mazatlán's Literary Prize 2005, Life with My Widow tells the story of a death and everything that comes to pass because of it. Life with My Widow is a mirror game where reality vanishes with a breath of the intangible, and the inexistant comes to life at death's own door. A story of mystery, as provoking and amusing as it is unsettling and enigmatic, where the main character, married to an indigenous shaman from Oaxaca, witnesses a man's death, a man that looks just like him. At the very moment that strange man draws his last breath, the protagonist of this profound, vivid plot decides to switch their identities. He wants to know what his wife and children will do once he is dead. What he doesn't realize is that he will also have to take on the terrible commitments of the man whose identity he took. Life with My Widow, Mazatlán's Literary Prize 2005, confirms José Agustín as one of the greatest, deepest, most original voices in Mexican contemporary literature. An author in full possession of his art.

José Agustín

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José Agustín was born in Acapulco in 1944. Less than two decades later, he began publishing, positioning himself at the forefront of his generation. He was a member of the literary workshop of Juan José Arreola, who published his first novel, La tumba, in 1964. He has been a fellow of the Mexican Writers' Center and the Fulbright and Guggenheim foundations. He has written plays and screenplays, directing various projects in this field. Among his works are De perfil (1966), Inventando que sueño (1968), Se está haciendo tarde (final en laguna) (1973, Dos Océanos Award at the Biarritz Festival), El rey se acerca a su templo (1975), Cerca del fuego (1986), El rock de la cárcel (1986), No hay censura (1988), La miel derramada (1992), La panza del Tepozteco (1993), Dos horas de sol (1994), La contracultura en México (1996), Cuentos completos (2001), Los grandes discos del rock (2001), Vida con mi viuda (2004, Mazatlán Literature Prize) and Armablanca (2006). He has published essays and historical chronicles, notably the three volumes of Tragicomedia mexicana (1990, 1992, 1998). In 2011, he received the National Prize for Sciences and Arts in the field of Linguistics and Literature and the medals for Merit in Fine Arts and Artistic Merit from the Legislative Assembly of the D.F.

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