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Swainson says the book is “not only an almost unbelievable series of adventures, but a devastating portrait of the forces that, over a half a century, turned the world upside down and created the one we now inhabit.” Due to the death of a friend (who he has not seen in 30 years), a man is called down to an Argentinian artist’s commune to edit her final manuscript. From here, he is led on a path across different cultures and time periods, all connected by language, loss, and community. Reina, Elena (2016-11-28). "La FIL de Guadalajara celebra 30 años como la capital literaria de América Latina". EL PAÍS (in Spanish) . Retrieved 2017-08-30.

Esta última obra, la deja como legado a un viejo amigo, al que no ve desde hace 30 años. Es este quien cuenta la historia y trata de atar los cabos de todos los personajes y eventos para al final, incluyendo reflexiones filosóficas, medita sobre la importancia de la memoria y del lenguaje, tanto personal como de la cultura de los pueblos. So much of the writing in Carlos Fonseca Suárez’s Colonel Lágrimas was just gorgeous, and Megan McDowell’s translation from the original Spanish managed to keep the beautiful complexity of the language intact.”

“Fiercely intelligent and wildly imaginative—a fever dream of a novel, rich and strange.”

A reflection on identity, rootlessness and violence, written in admirable prose—Fonseca’s most ambitious, most complex and most accomplished novel to date.”

Bill Swainson, consultant editor, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to Retrospective by Vásquez from María Lynch at Casanovas & Lynch. He acquired the same rights to Fonseca’s Austral, originally published by Anagrama in 2022, from Sandra Pareja at Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents. After just two novels Carlos Fonseca has already established himself as one of the most interesting and ambitious young writers working in Spanish today. His second novel Natural History is a tour de force, an expansive investigation of mimesis, tedium, and the line between art and reality, propelled by an intriguing, polyphonic plot structure.” From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling novel about legacy, memory, and the desire to know and be known. Austral (Anagrama, 2022). Translated by Megan McDowell as Austral (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023 and MacLehose Press, 2023)In this pretty puzzle, Fonseca tests the limits of fiction . . . Fonseca’s narration mimics the meandering matrix of memory or an esoteric police procedural by Jorge Luis Borges . . . For lovers of literary and Latin American postmodern fiction.” A dazzling novel about the traces we leave, the traces we erase and the traces we seek to rebuild, by one of the most innovative and powerful new voices in contemporary Latin American literature The words, coming from the kitchen, crossed the living room on that December morning to reach Julio, who had sat in one of the armchairs farthest from the door to try and escape the freezing breeze that periodically slipped in. Recognizing the expression, he stopped rolling the cigarette he had in his hands and looked up. He saw no one. Olivia had excused herself to make more coffee, and the only thing that moved in the room was the Italian greyhound that had jumped up into the chair she’d just vacated. He had the impression that they were acting out a previously rehearsed scene. Just last night, in fact, they’d been right here, sitting in these old leather chairs with three small lamps lighting the scene, telling the story that today she was recounting with variations. It was as if she were afraid he’d already forgotten it, or maybe she thought repeating it was a way of understanding it. Two strangers who were seeing each other’s faces for the first time, united by the trust placed in them by the fragile ghost of the mutual friend under whose roof they were speaking. Just like this, they’d settled in with a couple of beers from seven in the evening until well past ten, though now the morning exposed what yesterday had been only shadow.

Specters of the Avant-Garde». Flash Art (en inglés). 6 de noviembre de 2015 . Consultado el 30 de agosto de 2017.Carlos Fonseca & The Liberated Novel – Electric Literature". Electric Literature. 2016-10-04 . Retrieved 2017-08-30. For readers interested in climate change and the natural world―but who prefer books a little less on the nose― Natural History offers a layered and at times wonderfully beguiling story about art, history, and mystery that hops generations. Animal lovers will delight at the protagonist’s obsession with creaturely furtiveness and wild animals’ natural ability to self-camouflage. And fans of ambitious structure-benders like Italo Calvino will appreciate the novel’s planet-and decade-spanning mystery that connects 1970s New York to the jungles of Latin America. As the protagonist, a curator at a natural history museum, pieces the clues together, he discovers links between art, science, and religion that change forever how he sees the world.” Yazar Aliza Abravanel beyin hasarı sonucu afazi geçiriyor ve hikayenin devamını bütünlemesi için otuz sene önce onu yarı yolda bırakan Julio'ya bir mektup bırakıyor. Aliza edebiyat profesörü Julio'yu vasi olarak tayin ediyor ve böylece adamın geçmişiyle hesaplaşması için ona bıraktığı el yazmasını okuyarak güneye doğru uzun bir yolculuk yapmasını sağlıyor. Kitap çok katmanlı ve iz sürmek beni bir hayli yordu. He is also the author of a book of essays, where he writes about the works of writers that have inspired him like Ricardo Piglia, W.G. Sebald, Roberto Bolaño, Marta Aponte Alsina, and Enrique Vila-Matas. This book won the Premio Nacional Aquileo J. Echevarría, Costa Rica’s National Prize of Literature, in the Essay Category. [17] Awards [ edit ] In a calm and lyrical tone, Carlos Fonseca’s works ambitiously seek to incorporate everything. They flirt with unified theories and take joy in connecting ideas in unexpected ways, his protagonists often losing themselves in beguiling mental labyrinths of their own making . . . It is this very bravery that makes it such a pleasure to read his intellectual thrillers about art, nature, and the quest to remake oneself.”

Carlos Fonseca es un regalo de los dioses. Un escritor que escribe simulacros y espejismos como quien cincela bloques de mármol, un escritor de raza, indómito, cuya inteligencia procede de una imaginación torrencial» (Ricardo Baixeras, El Periódico).

Entrevistas

The Literature of Catastrophe: Nature, Disaster and Revolution in Latin America(Bloomsbury Press, 2020) Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator’s fascination with the hidden forms of the animal kingdom—with camouflage and subterfuge—and she proposes that they collaborate on an exhibition, the form of which itself remains largely obscure, even as they enter into a strange relationship marked by evasion and elision. Las tres historias reales hacen referencia a la colonia filonazi que una hermana de Nietzsche fundó, con su marido, en Paraguay, a finales del siglo XIX. La segunda es la sangrienta represión y casi exterminio de la población indígena, hace unas décadas, en Guatemala, por parte del siniestro general Efraín Ríos Montt. Y la tercera, la desaparición de una lengua. La ficticia tiene que ver con un libro inconcluso que la escritora (de origen judío) Aliza Abravanel, estaba escribiendo cuando murió, residiendo en una colonia de artistas, en el norte de Argentina. Estas cuatro líneas argumentales no estarían justificadas, si no fuera porque hay alguien que las vincula mediante un relato escrito en tercera persona. Ese alguien, Julio, es un narrador que curiosamente (y subrayo el adverbio) es presentado por una voz omnisciente, cuando lo más esperable hubiera sido la primera, dado el tono y el contenido con muchos tramos autobiográficos o confesionales. The young Fonseca, who is someone who creates fictions about archives, masks and ruins, that is to say, someone who knows how to create other ways of thinking, and who is also usually a brilliant and obstinate explorer of abysses, has become one of my favourite writers. 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.”