El fin de la locura (Trilogía del siglo XX 2)

by Jorge Volpi Narrated by Humberto Solórzano

Overview

Del París del 68 al triunfo del neoliberalismo en México, El fin de la locura es una divertida y apasionada novela de ideas, que recorre los acontecimientos históricos más emblemáticos del siglo XX.

Segunda novela de la "Trilogía del siglo XX", iniciada con En busca de Klingsor. Reconstrucción, entre verdad histórica y ficción del complejo mundo del estructuralismo parisino.

A caballo entre la novela política y la de aventuras, El fin de la locura es una divertida y apasionada novela de ideas, que relata el periplo de Aníbal Quevedo, un excéntrico psicoanalista mexicano, es testigo de los acontecimientos históricos más emblemáticos del siglo XX. Del París del 68 al triunfo del neoliberalismo en México durante el gobierno de Salinas de Gortari, por las páginas de este libro desfilan desde Lacan, Foucault y Barthes, hasta Fidel Castro o Salvador Allende, en una fascinante reflexión sobre las utopías revolucionarias que marcaron el siglo pasado.

La crítica ha opinado:

"El fin de la locura es una fiesta literaria y un regalo para la inteligencia. Una novela espléndida con un protagonista que lo mismo merece un ensayo que una ranchera. Pasen y lean." -Fernando Iwasaki, ABC-

Editorial Reviews

Criticas

The most celebrated of Mexico's Crack group, which emerged in 1996 to protest the imitative, formulaic offerings of contemporary Mexican literature, Volpi here indulges his interest in French thinkers with an elaborate novel whose satire is aimed primarily at the leftist counterculture of the late 20th century. Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, and other structuralists, particularly the iconoclastic psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, drift through these pages as Volpi dips an oar in some of the more turgid currents of the era's thought. The story follows an amnesiac Mexican psychologist who comes to consciousness-literally and figuratively-in Paris at the height of the 1968 student riots. The character is at once tragically quixotic and peculiarly Forrest Gumpish as he crosses paths with major cultural icons of the ensuing two decades, becoming a prominent, controversial, and compromised intellectual of the Mexican left. Volpi once again gives us a novel rich in ideas, displaying formidable literary craft and an emblematic refusal to pander to popular sensibilities. This is the second installment, following En busca de Klingsor (In Search of Klingsor, Planeta, 1999), of Volpi's projected trilogy focusing on the second half of the last century. Klingsor was a worldwide smash, thanks to its inventive sophistication and compelling plot, and it will be interesting to see if that popularity can extend to this more esoteric work, whose story is unrelated. Followers of the Mexican intelligentsia will relish Volpi's latest novel for its pointed inside jokes and cameos by the likes of cultural critics Carlos Monsiv is and Christopher Dominguez. Uninitiated readers might prefer to start with Klingsor.Recommended for academic and public libraries with extensive fiction collections.
—Bruce Jensen, Spanish in Our Libraries (SOL), Hollywood, CA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940174995918
Publisher:	Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Publication date:	08/18/2022
Series:	Trilogía del siglo XX Volumen 2
Edition description:	Unabridged
Language:	Spanish

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