Esta novela es el testamento literario de Carlos Fuentes, una lección definitiva sobre lo que fue y seguirá siendo como escritor. Un autorretrato hablado donde el narrador se multiplica en sus personajes, creando la contradicción espiritual y filosófica que siempre bulló en su alma, una dialéctica que abre interrogaciones sin intentar respuestas determinantes. Es lo que hizo a lo largo de su vida y de sus libros: interrogar, cuestionar, abrir la ventana, asomarse, agarrar a las verdades establecidas por el rabo y hacerlas chillar. Desde su balcón en el Hotel Metropol, Federico Nietzsche, que regresa a una edad moderna con sus viejas dudas y culpas, interroga a Federico Nietzsche en el otro balcón. Carlos Fuentes, desde el suyo, interroga a Carlos Fuentes que se asoma al otro. Entre ambos hay espejos que los reflejan y reflejan a las edades. Carlos Nietzsche y Federico Fuentes conversan sobre el poder, el amor y la justicia mientras van dando entrada a estrafalarios y paradigmáticos personajes al escenario de una revolución donde caerán cabezas. Así es la historia de la ambición humana, de la intriga por el poder, del delirio que lleva al crimen, de la bastardía de la traición, porque el poder implica hilos manejados tras bambalinas, dominio sobre el otro. La gloria ha llegado, la gloria se ha ido. Volverán los de antes a levantarle monumentos a los de después, envolviendo a los sacrificados en un sudario de palabras. Y cuando Federico y su vecino cierren las puertas de sus balcones, todo volverá a empezar. Sergio Ramírez ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The light of dawn is breaking over the impressive balconies of the Hotel Metropol as two legends, Friedrich Nietzsche and Leonardo Loredan, exchange thoughts on power, love, justice, and loyalty. The year could be 2014 or 2016, and the country suffers the ravages of the revolution that has overturned a "perfect dictatorship." Leonardo and Friedrich watch the mob pass by, mindful of the endless spiral of violence it represents and thinking that, perhaps, the horror will never end. Federico en su balcón is a testimony to Fuentes' literary triumph. A definitive lesson on what he stood for, and will continue to represent, as a writer. It is also a verbal self-portrait where the storyteller is multiplied in his characters to create the spiritual and philosophical contradictions that breathed in his soul—a dialogue that opens the door to interrogations without attempting to provide decisive answers.
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Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012). Connotado intelectual y uno de los principales exponentes de la narrativa mexicana, tiene una vasta obra que incluye novela, cuento, teatro y ensayo. Recibió numerosos premios, entre ellos los siguientes: Premio Biblioteca Breve 1967 por Cambio de piel; Premio Xavier Villaurrutia y Premio Rómulo Gallegos por Terra nostra; Premio Internacional Alfonso Reyes 1979; Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes en Lingüística y Literatura 1984; Premio Cervantes 1987; Orden de la Independencia Cultural Rubén Darío, otorgada por el Gobierno Sandinista, 1988; Premio del Instituto Italo-Americano 1989 por Gringo viejo; Medalla Rectoral de la Universidad de Chile, 1991; Condecoración con la Orden al Mérito de Chile, en grado de Comendador, 1993; Premio Príncipe de Asturias 1994; Premio Internacional Grinzane Cavour 1994; Premio Picasso, otorgado por la UNESCO, 1994; Premio Cervantes, 1987; Premio de la Latinidad otorgado por las Academias Brasileña y Francesa de la Lengua, 2000; Legión de Honor del Gobierno Francés, 2003; Premio Roger Caillois 2003; Premio Real Academia Española 2004 por En esto creo; Premio Galileo 2000, Italia, 2005; Gran Cruz de la Orden de Isabel la Católica, 2008; Premio Internacional Don Quijote de la Mancha 2008; Gran Medalla de Verneil 2010; y Premio Formento de las Letras, 2011.
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