El Estilo de Los Elementos / The Style of the Elements - by Rodrigo Fresán (Paperback)

About the Book

"A period novel, a love story, a story of initiation, a psychological novel, a political novel, a novel about fathers and sons, a novel about creating readers and not writers, a sad novel that brings joy, a joyful novel that brings sadness. I'd say thank you, but that isn't enough. I'll say it anyway: Thank you for writing this. It will stay with me for a long time." - Leila Guerriero. A virus is spreading around the world, causing people to forget everything and lose all belief in yesterday. Through it all, Land - making and unmaking memories - moves through his own story and those of the people around him, hacking their childhood, adolescence and adulthood across three Great Cities. Welcome to REC, REW and PLAY without STOP; books stolen, abandoned or destroyed; hypnotic parties and trance-like funerals; sleepless parents who want to be their children's best friends and children who dream only of being able to sleep; Big Vaina and Nome; love affairs that don't kill or die but instead are immortalized forever; ghostly writers and untrustworthy readers; and truths, lies and secrets written or corrected in blue and red" --

Book Synopsis

«Novela de época, novela de amor, novela de iniciación, novela psicoanalítica, novela política, novela sobre hijos y sobre padres, novela acerca de cómo se construye un lector y no se construye un escritor, novela tristísima que da felicidad, novela feliz que da tristeza. Diría gracias, pero es una palabra chica. Igual la digo: gracias por haberla escrito. La voy a llevar en el cuerpo mucho tiempo». Leila Guerriero

Un fantasma viral recorre el mundo y lo contagia sin remedio con el olvido a la vez que lo inmuniza contra toda creencia en el ayer. Y el muy paciente Land -haciendo y deshaciendo memoria- se mueve a lo largo y ancho de su propia historia y de la de quienes rodean y acorralan y jaquean su infancia y adolescencia y madurez a los largo y ancho de tres Grandes Ciudades.

Bienvenidos -de todo corazón- al REC y al REW y al PLAY sin STOP de libros a robar o abandonar o destruir, de fiestas hipnóticas y de funerales en trance, de padres insomnes que sólo quieren ser mejores amigos y de «hijos de...» que sólo sueñan con poder dormir un poco, de Big Vaina y de Nome, de amores que no matan ni mueren sino que se inmortalizan, de escritores fantasmas y de lectores poco confiables, y de verdades y mentiras y secretos escritas o corregidas en azul y rojo.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"A period novel, a love story, a story of initiation, a psychological novel, a political novel, a novel about fathers and sons, a novel about creating readers and not writers, a sad novel that brings joy, a joyful novel that brings sadness. I'd say thank you, but that isn't enough. I'll say it anyway: Thank you for writing this. It will stay with me for a long time." - Leila Guerriero

A virus is spreading around the world, causing people to forget everything and lose all belief in yesterday. Through it all, Land - making and unmaking memories - moves through his own story and those of the people around him, hacking their childhood, adolescence and adulthood across three Great Cities.

Welcome to REC, REW and PLAY without STOP; books stolen, abandoned or destroyed; hypnotic parties and trance-like funerals; sleepless parents who want to be their children's best friends and children who dream only of being able to sleep; Big Vaina and Nome; love affairs that don't kill or die but instead are immortalized forever; ghostly writers and untrustworthy readers; and truths, lies and secrets written or corrected in blue and red.

About the Author

Rodrigo Fresán nació en Buenos Aires en 1963 y vive en Barcelona desde 1999. Es autor de los libros Historia argentina, Vidas de santos, Trabajos manuales, Esperanto, La velocidad de las cosas, Mantra (Premio Nuevo Talento Fnac 2002), Jardines de Kensington (Premio Lateral de Narrativa 2004, finalista Premio Fundación José Manuel Lara), El fondo del cielo (Locus Magazine Favorite Speculative Fiction in Translation Novel 2018, USA) y del tríptico La Parte Contada, compuesto por La parte inventada (Best Translated Book Award 2018, USA), La parte soñada y La parte recordada.

El jurado de Best Translated Book Award alabó La parte inventada con la citación: «Fresán es un maestro». En 2017, Fresán recibió en Francia el Prix Roger Caillois a la totalidad de su obra por ser un «escritor atípico, transgresor e ineludible».