Helen R. Lane Orden de los libros (cronológico)

An "introduction to the nonfascist life" (Michel Foucault, from the Preface) When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society's innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of each person's unwillingness to be cut off from the group. What's more, those who suffer from mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because they are by nature isolated from society. More than twenty-five years after its original publication, Anti-Oedipus still stands as a controversial contribution to a much-needed dialogue on the nature of free thinking.

En esta novela el autor contrapone con extraordinario virtuosismo técnico dos mundos qeu parecen vivir enfrentados, el de las sociedades modernas y el de los pueblos que viven en armonía con la naturaleza. A su vez conduce al lector a un viaje vertiginoso por el imaginario colectivo de los indios machiguengas, que le sirve para desarrollar, una vez más, una de sus obsesiones: el papel de la ficción en la vida los hombres.

A collage made of pictures of Buenos Aires, divided in short stories (some surprisingly brief), told in the warm, humorous, precise and metaphorical style that made Luisa Valenzuela a recognized worldwide author.