Facsímil

Facsímil - Alejandro Zambra - Sexto Piso
Publisher name: 
Sexto Piso
Year of publication: 
2015
Pages: 
96
Book size:
15x23cm
Binding: 
Rustic

To say that Facsimile is a novel would be as risky as to say that it is not. Perhaps it is better to say only that it is a book by Alejandro Zambra, because the style and themes that have made it an indispensable voice in Latin American literature are here, in a radical and extreme way. From the structure of the Verbal Aptitude Test, applied in Chile from 1967 to 2002 to the postulants to the universities, the author creates a work where the stories coexist with lyrical fragments and language exercises that are rather ethical problems: Need to lie to be validated before others; The will to establish bonds despite distrust in love and in the family; The difficulty of navigating a minefield of secrets; The desolate conviction that, rather than learning to think, we were trained to obey and repeat. Facsimile walks around issues that call us as society - inequality, memory, education - an...read more

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Book: Facsímil

ISBN: 9788415601968
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