Amuleto / Amulet – hinnat ja saatavuus

«Amuleto es una obra menor, intimista, con una voz delirante que no ofrece contrapuntos, o que ofrece pocos contrapuntos. Es una obra de c mara o de un solo instrumento. Eso s de un solo instrumento, pero para alguien que sepa dar el callo con ese instrumento. --Roberto Bola o Auxilio Lacouture se considera a s misma «la madre de todos los mexicanos y «la madre de la poes a mexicana . Uruguaya de nacimiento, residente de M xico D. F., abonada a los trabajos humildes y espor dicos durante el d a, incansablemente inmersa en la bohemia nocturna de la ciudad, todo cambia para ella el 18 de septiembre de 1968, cuando el ej rcito toma posesi n del campus de la Universidad Nacional Aut noma de M xico y ella queda encerrada en los ba os de la facultad de filosof a y letras. A lo largo de trece d as de encierro y aislamiento forzado, por sus ojos transitan la poetisa Lilian Serpes, amante a su vez del Che Guevara; los poetas espa oles Le n Felipe y Pedro Garfias; el malogrado alter ego de Bola o Arturo Belano. De este modo, Auxilio reflexiona sobre la senda y los pasos dejados atr s y los que, a n y cada vez m s, restan sumidos en las sombras de un pa s de incierto futuro. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the young poets in the caf s and bars of the University. She's tall, thin, and blonde, and her favorite young poet in the 1970s is none other than Arturo Belano (Bolano's fictional stand-in throughout his books). As well as her young poets, Auxilio recalls three remarkable women: the melancholic young philosopher Elena, the exiled Catalan painter Remedios Varo, and Lilian Serpas, a poet who once slept with Che Guevara. And in the course of her imaginary visit to the house of Remedios Varo, Auxilio sees an uncanny landscape, a kind of chasm. This chasm reappears in a vision at the end of the book: an army of children is marching toward it, singing as they go. The children are the idealistic young Latin Americans who came to maturity in the '70s, and the last words of the novel are: "And that song is our amulet."