Carlos Fonseca

Austral (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Mcdowell, Megan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A tender and thoughtful exploration of the painful irony of being alive and our attempts to make sense of the past as well as the present" KATHARINA VOLCKMER, author of The Appointment

"A reflection on identity, rootlessness and violence - Fonseca's most ambitious, most complex and most accomplished novel to date" JAVIER CERCAS, author of Soldiers of Salamis

"A beautifully knotted novel which unfolds with every traced layer of its deeply affecting narrative alongside a meditation on memory, mystery and vanishing. Sebaldian in its turns, Austral is a novel of profound questions" GUY GUNARATNE, author of Mister, Mister

A dazzling novel about the traces we leave, the traces we erase and the traces we seek to rebuild.

In this innovative novel three losses and three quests are pursued. English writer Aliza Abravanel tries, in a battle with aphasia, to finish her book. A last indigenous speaker is confronted with the fading of his culture and language while an anthropologist struggles to prevent it. And through the construction of an esoteric theatre of memory, a survivor of the Guatemalan genocide of the 1970s and '80s seeks to recover the memories lost after the traumas of war. And behind these three threads lies the narrator's own story: Julio, a disillusioned university professor, must try to understand and complete his friend Aliza's novel, and come to terms with a past he shared with her but has blanked for thirty years.

From the Guatemalan wilderness to the high Peruvian Amazon, passing through Nueva Germania, the anti-Semitic commune founded in Paraguay by Nietzsche's sister, Austral takes us on a long journey south, following a trail of ecological and cultural destruction to excavate contemporary xenophobia.

"Reminiscent of the best of Bolaño, Borges and Calvino" Guardian

Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quercus
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529422627
• Artikelnr.: 65258881

Autorenporträt

Carlos Fonseca; Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

Rezensionen

"Austral is a masterly voyage of discovery, both physical and intellectual."
-Anderson Tepper, The New York Times Book Review

"Austral is just a wonderful book. It really spoke to me as someone who has somewhat recently returned to a place and a culture that I left several decades before. Not everyone will have that exact experience, but when you can, obviously that's kind of a magical thing."
-June Thomas, Slate

"An exceptional and intricate novel of depth, insight and understanding, translated with great care by Megan McDowell."
-Declain O'Driscoll, Irish Times

"Expansive and thought-provoking."
-John Self, The Guardian

"Austral reaches across time and space to craft a unique literary environment complete with eccentric characters and grand schemes that gradually reveal the secret of their connections."
-Joseph Schreiber, Rough Ghosts

"The themes of Austral are familiar ones-language, communication, love-but in this novel they find a particular subtlety and poignance."
-Jessica Sequiera, The Rumpus

"An intricate mosaic, a chronicle of human experience."
-Esperanza Hope Snyder, On The Seawall

"The protagonists of this sweeping novel strive to piece together the past in all its cruelty to better understand themselves and whence they came. Austral juxtaposes beautifully the search for truth and the artistic process in a depiction that makes one indistinguishable from the other. With great sensitivity, Carlos Fonseca captures the sense of dislocation that comes to define anyone who has ever been displaced."
-Alejandro Varela, author of The Town of Babylon

"In Austral, Fonseca has created a profoundly literary project: to search for the traces of that journey of no return to who we used to be, and to leave a free and joyful record of his unexpected findings discoveries."
-Alia Trabucco Zerán, author of The Remainder

"Austral is a tender and thoughtful exploration of the painful irony of being alive and our attempts to make sense of the past as well as the present. Carlos Fonseca has written a book that is like a beautiful maze where we can discover new treasures at each turn."
-Katharina Volckmer, author of The Appointment

"A beautifully knotted novel which unfolds with every traced layer of its deeply affecting narrative along side a meditation on memory, mystery and vanishing. Sebaldian in its turns, Austral is a novel of profound questions."
-Guy Gunaratne, author of Mister, Mister

"Carlos Fonseca is one of today's most promising Latin American novelists, and Austral - a reflection on identity, rootlessness and violence, written in admirable prose - is his most ambitious, most complex and most accomplished novel to date"
-Javier Cercas, author of Even the Darkest Night

"[A] tour de force."
-Booklist

"As a study of the confusions of history and the challenge of language to get the story right, it's an admirably complex, intellectually searching work."
-Kirkus Reviews