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Notas del rodaje de Zama de Lucrecia Martel.La toma que se repite. Los susurros de los qom y su prolijo caminar de fila escolar ante las cámaras. Las máquinas que se empantanan. El calor y el barro. Los trajes y las pelucas. El casting. Pueblos fantasma transformados en escenografía; vecinos, en españoles e indígenas; campos, en los páramos donde don Diego de Zama espera en vano el ascenso que lo saque del ostracismo y la apatía.Mientras Lucrecia Martel filma, Selva Almada observa, pregunta, escribe. Y esas notas -sutiles, líricas- son mucho más que un inspirado e irreverente diario de filmación: son un dispositivo óptico, sensible, que ilumina, fragmenta y profundiza en el mito literario Zama, atravesando las páginas y las imágenes, de la película al libro.Reseñas:Selva Almada puede seguir hablando desde las esferas de la soledad de los territorios humanos, condenados desde su misma génesis; de la #muerte# como una cosa #vacía y oscura#; puede

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Dispersos o inhallables, los relatos reunidos en este libro dan nuevo acceso a la literatura de Selva Almada, conocida por crónicas y novelas varias veces traducidas, elogiadas por la crítica y celebradas por los lectores.Las siestas y los arroyos, los cardos y las máquinas, los caminos del litoral argentino. El calor. Compañeros, hermanos, abuelas, padres, amantes, amigos. Y, entre todos ellos, los códigos tácitos que revelan el carácter de los vínculos que los unen o los diálogos que los consienten y transforman, pero que solo una autora de su talento permite que se escuchen cuando se los lee. En El desapego es una manera de querernos, Almada despliega toda la original potencia de su prosa.Críticas:Selva Almada puede seguir hablando desde las esferas de la soledad de los territorios humanos, condenados desde su misma génesis; de la "muerte" como una cosa "vacía y oscura"; puede seguir hablándonos desde los márgenes, con esa violenta claridad de su lengu

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Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier. As a long, sultry day passes, they drink and cook and talk and dance, and try to overcome the ghosts of their past. But they are outsiders, and this intimate, peculiar moment also puts them at odds with the inhabitants of this watery universe, both human and otherwise. The forest presses close, and violence seems inevitable, but can another tragedy be avoided?Rippling across time like the river that runs through it, Selva Almada’s latest novel is the finest expression yet of her compelling style and singular vision of rural Argentina.This masterful novel reveals once again Selva Almada's unique voice and extraordinary sensitivity, allowing its characters to shine and express in action what the depths of their souls harbour.One of the Best Books of 2020 in Clarín and La NaciónShortlisted for the Mario Vargas Llosa Novel Prize

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Two young men, Pájaro Tamai and Marciano Miranda, are dying in a deserted amusement park. The story begins almost at its end, just after the two main characters have faced off in a knife fight: the culmination of a rivalry that has pitted them against one another since childhood. The present in Brickmakers is a state of impending death, at moments marked by dream-like visions: Marciano is visited by the ghost of his father, who was murdered when he was a teenager, a father he had sworn to avenge, in a promise he could not keep. Pájaro is also visited, in a recurring nightmare, by his abusive father who disappeared years earlier.Narrated with fury and passion, reminiscent of William Faulkner or Katherine Anne Porter, Brickmakers is a rural tragedy in the great American tradition, a story of love, honour and violence where everything is at stake. Reprising the powerful imagery and the filmic landscape of The Wind That Lays Waste, and the threatening atmosphere of Dead Girls, Brickmakers is yet another proof of Almada’s extraordinary talent.

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Leni crossed her arms, said nothing, and watched the fight unfold. She was like a bored onlooker at a boxing trial, wasting no energy on the undercard, saving her passion for the moment when the real champions would step into the ring. And yet, at some point, she began to cry. Just tears, without any sound. Water falling from her eyes as water was falling from the sky. Rain disappearing into rain.The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is an evangelist preaching the word of God across northern Argentina with Leni, his teenage daughter, in tow. When their car breaks down, fate leads them to the workshop of an ageing mechanic, Gringo Brauer, and his assistant, a boy called Tapioca. Over the course of a long day, curiosity and a sense of new opportunities develop into an unexpected intimacy. Yet this encounter between a man convinced of his righteousness and one mired in cynicism and apathy will become a battle for the very souls of the young pair: the quietly earnest and idealistic mechanic’s assistant, and the restless, sceptical preacher’s daughter. As tensions among the four ebb and flow, beliefs are questioned and allegiances tested, until finally the growing storm breaks over the plains.Selva Almada’s exquisitely crafted debut, with its limpid and confident prose, is profound and poetic, a near-tangible experience of the landscape amid the hot winds, wrecked cars, sweat-stained shirts and damaged lives, told with the cinematic precision of a static road movie, like a Paris, Texas of the south. With echoes of Carson McCullers, The Wind That Lays Waste is a contemplative and powerfully distinctive novel that marks the arrival in English of an author whose talent and poise are undeniable.

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