Delirio/delirium (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Restrepo, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 846631492X ISBN 13: 9788466314923

Publisher: Punto De Lectura, 2004

Synopsis

Aguilar returns home after a short business trip only to find that his wife, Agustina, has gone crazy. Having no idea what could have happened during his absence, and hoping to help her overcome this crisis, he begins to investigate. What he discovers are deep and disturbing facts hidden in the past of the woman he loves. Delirio is a story of love and madness, mysteries and secrets in the midst of the breakdown of Colombian society. Wonderfully constructed, magnificently narrated and brilliantly developed. Description in Spanish: Un hombre regresa a casa después de un corto viaje de negocios y encuentra que su esposa ha enloquecido completamente. No tiene idea de qué le ha podido ocurrir durante los tres días de su ausencia, y con el fin de ayudarla a salir de la crisis empieza a investigar, sólo para descubrir lo poco que sabe sobre las profundas perturbaciones escondidas en el pasado de la mujer que ama. Narrada con talento y emoción, la historia principal de esta novela se fragmenta en otras que se anudan a través de personajes llenos de matices, y se cierra con un final bello y esperanzador, digno de un libro intenso y hermoso.

About this title

About the Author

Laura Restrepo (Bogotá, 1950) graduated from the Universidad de los Andes with a degree in Philosophy and Humanities, and did postgraduate studies in Political Science. In 1983 she was appointed to the peace negotiating committee between her government and the M-19 guerrilla forces until 1989. Laura has published Historia de un entusiasmo, La isla de la pasión (1989), Leopardo al sol (1993), Dulce compañía (1995), La novia oscura (1999), La multitud errante (2001), and Olor a rosas invisibles (2002). Some of her many literary awards are: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (1997), Prix France Culture (1998), and Archbishop Juan de Sanclemente Prize (2003). Laura Restrepo is one of the finest Latin American authors of our day, and her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Review

" "Delirium" is one of the finest novels written in recent memory. Laura Restrepo has a total mastery over what she writes, an astonishing but absolute mastery. Yes, there's violence, narcotraffic, madness, perhaps even love itself as a form of total madness. The important thing is that we're talking about a truly great novel, of a kind you seldom encounter anymore."
-- Jose Saramago
" Laura Restrepo breathes life into a singular amalgam of journalistic investigation and literary creation. Her fascination with popular culture and the play of her impeccable humor . . . save her novels from any temptation toward pathos or melodrama, and infuse them with unmistakable reading pleasures."
-- Gabriel Garci a Ma rquez
" Laura Restrepo' s "Delirium" has an aesthetic distinction worthy of her precursors Garci a Ma rquez and Saramago. Like them, her narrative sense of erotic derangement is elaborately nuanced. Ultimately she seems to me an authentic descendent of the greatest New World author and seer of eros, Walt Whitman."
-- Harold Bloom
" This beautiful and disturbing book haunted me during the days I read it and long after I put it down. Love, unknowability, loss, and even various forms of gain elide from one to another of its passionate, unnerving voices."
-- Vikram Seth

""Delirium" is one of the finest novels written in recent memory. Laura Restrepo has a total mastery over what she writes, an astonishing but absolute mastery. Yes, there's violence, narcotraffic, madness, perhaps even love itself as a form of total madness. The important thing is that we're talking about a truly great novel, of a kind you seldom encounter anymore."
--Jose Saramago
"Laura Restrepo breathes life into a singular amalgam of journalistic investigation and literary creation. Her fascination with popular culture and the play of her impeccable humor . . . save her novels from any temptation toward pathos or melodrama, and infuse them with unmistakable reading pleasures."
--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Laura Restrepo's "Delirium" has an aesthetic distinction worthy of her precursors Garcia Marquez and Saramago. Like them, her narrative sense of erotic derangement is elaborately nuanced. Ultimately she seems to me an authentic descendent of the greatest New World author and seer of eros, Walt Whitman."
--Harold Bloom
"This beautiful and disturbing book haunted me during the days I read it and long after I put it down. Love, unknowability, loss, and even various forms of gain elide from one to another of its passionate, unnerving voices."
--Vikram Seth

""Delirium" is one of the finest novels written in recent memory. Laura Restrepo has a total mastery over what she writes, an astonishing but absolute mastery. Yes, there's violence, narcotraffic, madness, perhaps even love itself as a form of total madness. The important thing is that we're talking about a truly great novel, of a kind you seldom encounter anymore."
--Jose Saramago
"Laura Restrepo breathes life into a singular amalgam of journalistic investigation and literary creation. Her fascination with popular culture and the play of her impeccable humor . . . save her novels from any temptation toward pathos or melodrama, and infuse them with unmistakable reading pleasures."
--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Laura Restrepo's "Delirium" has an aesthetic distinction worthy of her precursors Garcia Marquez and Saramago. Like them, her narrative sense of erotic derangement is elaborately nuanced. Ultimately she seems to me an authentic descendent of the greatest New World author and seer of eros, Walt Whitman."
--Harold Bloom
"This beautiful and disturbing book haunted me during the days I read it and long after I put it down. Love, unknowability, loss, and even various forms of gain elide from one to another of its passionate, unnerving voices."
--Vikram Seth

Edition details

• Publisher: Punto De Lectura
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 846631492X
• ISBN 13: 9788466314923
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• Number of pages: 416