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Esta trilogía se adentra en las profundidades de la psique humana, explorando la espera como una condición existencial. Embárcate en un viaje a paisajes aislados y a menudo desolados donde los personajes lidian con sus propios deseos, frustraciones y fantasías paranoicas. Cada narrativa es un estudio magistral de la soledad y el lento y pesadillesco descenso que experimentan los personajes, cuyos destinos reflejan preguntas filosóficas más amplias sobre el sentido de la existencia. El estilo se caracteriza por su precisión, opulencia y una mezcla única de lo arcaico y lo moderno.

The Suicides
Zama
The Silentiary

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    Zama

    • 264 páginas
    • 10 horas de lectura
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    Publicada por primera vez en 1956, Zama está considerada de manera unánime como una de las grandes novelas del siglo veinte en lengua española.Con una escritura bella y precisa, Antonio Di Benedetto narra la existencia solitaria y suspendida de Don Diego de Zama, un funcionario de la corona española en Asunción del Paraguay que, víctima de una interminable espera, aguarda ser trasladado a Buenos Aires a fines del siglo XVIII.La de Zama no es cualquier espera, se trata de una condición existencial, angustiosa y reflexiva, en un territorio caracterizado por la lejanía, la ajenidad y la disposición para el recuerdo. Zama es la novela de un exiliado castizo, con un lenguaje intemporal y arcaico, por momentos cercano al del Siglo de Oro.

    Zama
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    The Silentiary

    • 176 páginas
    • 7 horas de lectura
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    In post-WWII South America, a struggling writer embarks on a murderous thought experiment to help kickstart his career in this next tale of longing from the author of Zama. The Silentiary takes place in a nameless Latin American city during the early 1950s. A young man employed in middle management entertains an ambition to write a book of some sort. But first he must establish the necessary precondition, which the crowded and noisily industrialized city always denies him, however often he and his mother and wife move in search of it. He thinks of embarking on his writing career with something simple, a detective novel, and ponders the possibility of choos- ing a victim among the people he knows and planning a crime as if he himself were the killer. That way, he hopes, his book might finally begin to take shape. The Silentiary, along with Zama and The Suicides, is one of the three thematically linked novels by Di Benedetto that have come to be known as the Trilogy of Expectation, after the dedication “To the victims of expectation” in Zama. Together they constitute, in Juan José Saer’s words, “one of the culminating moments of twentieth-century narrative fiction in Spanish.”

    The Silentiary
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    The Suicides

    • 136 páginas
    • 5 horas de lectura
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    The narrative follows a reporter investigating a series of seemingly unrelated suicides, delving into the broader implications and existential themes surrounding the act of suicide. This exploration serves as a profound reflection on life and despair, culminating in the third and final installment of Antonio Di Benedetto’s Trilogy of Expectation. The novel combines elegant prose with deep philosophical inquiry, making it a compelling read for those interested in the human condition.

    The Suicides