Name: Río Fugitivo (in Spanish)
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Author: Edmundo Paz Soldán
ISBN: 9788493591472

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edmundo Paz Soldán Ávila

Author

Edmundo Paz Soldán

Publisher

Libros Del Asteroide

Year

2008

Language

Spanish

Pages

376

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8493591475

ISBN13

9788493591472

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Río Fugitivo (in Spanish)"

In the Bolivian city of Cochabamba, a group of teenaged boys faces its last year in a private Catholic school, attended mostly by the children of upper-class families. Drunken nights, first experiences with drugs and sex, and continuous disciplinary problems are some of the rites of passage with which the students unknowingly try to assert their individuality. In the background, barely hidden beyond the classroom walls, lies the Bolivian reality of the 1980s: strikes, political instability, racism, social inequality, etc. Roby, the narrator, begins to notice all of this, and when a person close to him dies, the things he used to take for granted are suddenly gone; in his quest to solve the mysterious death, Roby will forge a path towards maturity. En la ciudad boliviana de Cochabamba una clase de muchachos inicia su último curso en un colegio privado y católico al que asisten sobre todo hijos de familias acomodadas. Las borracheras, los primeros escarceos con las drogas y el sexo y las continuas faltas de disciplina son algunos de los ritos de paso con que los alumnos intentan, sin saberlo, afirmar su individualidad. Al fondo, ligeramente atenuada por los muros del colegio, aparece la realidad boliviana de los ochenta: huelgas, inestabilidad política, racismo, desigualdades sociales, etcétera. De todo ello va dando cuenta Roby, el narrador de la novela, y cuando la muerte de una persona cercana le sorprende, las certidumbres en las que hasta entonces se apoyaba se tornan irreales; en su intento por resolver el enigma de la muerte, Roby buscará su camino hacia la madurez.

Edmundo Paz Soldán

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Edmundo Paz Soldán (Cochabamba, 1967) is a prominent Bolivian writer, known for his contribution to contemporary Latin American narrative. PhD in Latin American Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, he has been a professor of Latin American Literature at Cornell University since 1997. His work includes novels, short stories, and essays, exploring themes such as technology, politics, and identity. He was awarded the National Novel Prize of Bolivia in 2003 for El delirio de Turing and the Juan Rulfo Short Story Prize in 1997 for "Dochera".

Among his most notable works are Río fugitivo (1998), Los vivos y los muertos (2009), Iris (2014), Los días de la peste (2017), La vía del futuro (2021), and La mirada de las plantas (2022). His literary style is associated with the McOndo movement, characterized by an urban and technological realism that contrasts with traditional magical realism.

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