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La superficie más honda / The Deepest Surface - by Emiliano Monge (Paperback)
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By Emiliano Monge, author of Las tierras arrasadas, winner of the 9th Elena Poniatowska Iberoamerican Novel Prize. The eleven short stories gathered in this book depict the ghost of a constellation. And the ruling sign of this constellation is that of Violence. The Deepest Surface is a bestiary of man as the wolf himself: from the dry intimacy of familiar terror to the voracity of a lynching—either physical or by the media—here, wrath and erosion are king. As if the characters were pawns of some diaphanous will, personal destiny and social transformation act in these tales like an anonymous force that arranges everything. That is to say: it dissolves everything. With a merciless style, Emiliano Monge constructs precise atmospheres of oppression. From the first words in each story, a lurking vagueness insinuates itself, an emptiness that expands ferociously until it pushes the microuniverses to their final dissolution. Black holes of irony open up all around, but in this case humor doesn’t offer relief or a way out, but rather makes the corrosion more profound. Characters—and readers—discover themselves suspecting that perhaps they have never been here, in this thin depth that we call the world, and in the end there is no solace but that of escape.
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