Héctor Aguilar Camín

«El resplandor de la madera debe entenderse como una novela excepcional en el mbito de la narrativa mexicana. --Joaqu n Marco El resplandor de la madera es la historia de Casares, un mexicano de origen socioecon mico bajo que, marcado por las aspiraciones inculcadas por su madre, emprende sus estudios y su vida profesional intentando salir de la miseria y la ignorancia sin perderse en el camino, que es exactamente lo que le sucedi a su padre, quien tras invertir en negocios imposibles perdi su fortuna, su identidad y su familia. Pero el genial Aguilar Cam n va mucho m s all de esta lograda y desgarradora historia individual y combina las desventuras de Casares con la historia de sus antepasados y de la pen nsula de Yucat n, donde se desarrolla la novela. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION «The Glow of Wood should be regarded as an exceptional novel within the field of Mexican literature. --Joaquin Marco The Glow of Woodis the story of Casares, a Mexican young man from low socioeconomic origins who, marked by the aspirations instilled by his mother, takes on his studies and his professional life very seriously in order to try to get out of his misery and ignorance without getting lost along the way, which is precisely what happened to his father, who after investing in impossible businesses lost all his fortune, his identity, and his family. But the great Aguilar Cam n goes far beyond this heartbreaking individual story and combines Casares' misadventures with the story of his own ancestors and the Yucatan peninsula, where the novel takes place.

«Un soplo en el r o es una narraci n acerca de unas personas gobernadas, destruidas, de diferentes maneras por ideales inalcanzables. --Hugo Hiriart Un soplo en el r o es la historia de un amor truncado y, a un tiempo, la par bola de una generaci n cuya b squeda de un mundo justo dej un amargo sabor a heridas y fracasos. La cuenta de forma repentina uno de sus protagonistas, Antonio Salcido, a su atento amigo Salmer n durante un viaje en coche, con los volcanes nevados como testigos. Salcido se sumerge en su memoria y relata la p rdida de Rayda, el amor de su vida, en las opciones violentas de la utop a revolucionaria y el redentorismo religioso que marcaron a su generaci n. Cuenta la historia sin entenderla cabalmente, sin sospechar que su sentido tr gico no ha terminado de cumplirse, pues falta que se consume en l. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "A Murmur over the River is a story about people who have been ruled, destroyed in many ways by unattainable ideals." --Hugo Hiriart A Murmur over the River is the story of a love cut short and, at the same time, parable of a generation in search of a just world, quest that left them with the bitter taste of hurt and failure. It is told abruptly by Antonio Salcido, one of the protagonists, during a drive with his attentive friend Salmer n, the snow-capped volcanos as witnesses. Salcido plunges into his own memory and relates the loss of Rayda, the love of his life, within the violent possibilities of the revolutionary utopia and religious redemptorist practices that marked his generation. He tells this story without fully understanding it, unaware that its tragic sense has not yet been met, since it will end with him.

«A trav s de las ideolog as dif cilmente vamos a avanzar en posiciones comunes. Latinoam rica tiene ciertas identidades propias, no ideol gicas, desde las que puede hablar con una sola voz. sa es la voz que no existe, que desapareci en Am rica Latina. Ahora es cuando debemos crear esa sola voz. --Ricardo Lagos Entre julio de 2020 y abril de 2022, Ricardo Lagos, Jorge G. Casta eda y H ctor Aguilar Cam n sostuvieron una serie de encuentros virtuales para conversar sobre la situaci n de Am rica Latina ante las diversas crisis globales del siglo XXI. La preocupaci n central y originaria de este di logo es la condici n de aislamiento de la regi n, debido a la divisi n ideol gica de los pa ses, a la falta de foros de encuentro para sus gobiernos y, sobre todo, a la falta de una voz propia en el mundo. Durante esta conversaci n a tres bandas --entre Santiago de Chile, Nueva York y Ciudad de M xico--, los interlocutores revisan cuestiones como la nueva guerra fr a entre China y Estados Unidos y los retos que plantea para Am rica Latina, los desaf os de la democracia ante el populismo y la convulsi n del cambio digital, las causas y los efectos de la nueva ola de gobiernos de izquierda en la regi n, los problemas claves del crecimiento econ mico, y un mundo que ha salido m s desigual de la pandemia. Lagos, Casta eda y Aguilar Cam n re nen su experiencia y su amplio conocimiento sobre la materia para discutir los graves problemas que aquejan a los pa ses latinoamericanos en este momento de su historia y, sobre todo, plantean alternativas para salir de este aislamiento paralizador. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "We will hardly move forward over common ground through ideologies. Latin America has certain identities of its own, non ideological, from which it can communicate through a single voice. This is the voice that doesn't exist, that vanished in Latin America. Now is the time to create that one voice." --Ricardo Lagos From July, 2020 to April, 2022, Ricardo Lagos, Jorge G. Casta eda, and H ctor Aguilar Cam n had a series of virtual meetings to discuss Latin America's situation given the many global crises of the twenty-first century. The main concern that promoted this dialogue is the region's confinement due to ideological divides between the countries, the lack of fora for governments to meet, and, above all, the lack of a voice of its own in the world. During this three-way conversation--among Santiago de Chile, New York, and Mexico City--the parties reviewed issues such as the new cold war between China and the United States, and the challenges this poses to Latin America; the hurdles of democracy in the face of populism and the convulsion of digital change; the cause and effect of a new wave of left-wing governments in the region; key problems of economical growth, and a world that came out of the pandemic even more unequal. Lagos, Casta eda, and Aguilar Cam n gather their experience and vast knowledge on the matter to discuss the major problems afflicting Latin American countries at this moment of history and, most importantly, they put forward alternatives to get out of this paralyzing seclusion.

Una magistral novela de intriga y suspenso sobre el auge petrolero de los a os setenta. Morir en el Golfo es la puesta en escena de un pleito mortal, un trazo n tido e inquietante del modo en que se da la lucha por algunos espacios de poder en el M xico contempor neo. De un lado, la hermosa y perversa Anabela Guillaumin y su marido, el desorbitado pol tico Francisco Rojano. Del otro, un cacique sindical petrolero, L zaro Pizarro, encarnaci n del mundo corporativo y autoritario mexicano. En medio, el narrador de la historia, un columnista influyente, arrastrado al conflicto por su amistad con Anabella y Rojano. Frente a ellos, testigo y rbitro, el personaje sin nombre, jefe de la polic a pol tica del pa s, administrador de las sombras y los secretos del Estado. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Dying in the Gulf is the staging of a deadly lawsuit, a clear and disturbing portrait of the ways in which the struggle for power takes place in contemporary Mexico. On the one side, we find the beautiful and perverse Anabela Guillaumin and her husband, the steep politician Francisco Rojano. On the other, the oil union boss, L zaro Pizarro, is the incarnation of the Mexican corporate authoritarian world. The narrator of the story, an influential columnist, is drawn into the conflict because of his friendship with Anabella and Rojano. Standing right in front of them, a nameless character who is the head of the country's political police, with access to all kinds of privileged information, acts as witness and judge.

"Una obra de gran aliento narrativo que ha conquistado para la literatura mexicana actual arquetipos de la historia y la cultura del pa s". -Alvaro Ruiz Abreu En la novela Adi s a los padres, H ctor Aguilar Cam n narra la historia de su familia, marcada por la ausencia de su padre. Para decir la verdad -esa que est m s all de los datos-, el escritor sab a que solo pod a recurrir a la literatura. En este volumen de relatos replica la misma maniobra, pero llev ndola al extrema: los quince cuentos de Historias conversadas pueden leerse coma la autobiograf a de un personaje de ficci n que en cada cap tulo se inventara, o se robara, una vida distinta Estos cuentos, estas novelas condensadas, nos recuerdan que conversar es el origen primordial de la literatura. En cada uno, H ctor Aguilar Cam n reproduce con maestr a la lecci n de Sherezada: contar una historia dentro de una historia. Y as , mediante esta estrategia, pasa revista a las pasiones de toda una vida: la amistad, la familia, los reinos perdidos, el alcohol, el amor y el deseo, la imperfecci n de la historia ... Historias conversadas es el volumen que completa la saga familiar de H ctor Aguilar Cam n y el libro que lo confirma como uno de los mejores narradores mexicanos de nuestro tiempo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A work of great narrative breath that has conquered for Mexican literature current archetypes of the country's history and culture. -Alvaro Ruiz Abreu In the novel, Goodbye to Parents, H ctor Aguilar Cam n tells the story of his family, marked by his father's absence. To tell the truth--that which goes beyond just the facts--the writer knew that he could only turn to literature. In each one, H ctor Aguilar Cam n, reproduces with mastery Scheherazade's lesson: tell a story within a story. And like that, using this strategy, he reviews the passions of an entire life: friendship, family, lost kingdoms, alcohol, love and lust, the imperfection of history... Talked About Stories is the volume that completes H ctor Aguilar Cam n's family saga and the book that proves he's one of the best Mexican storytellers of our time.

HÉctor Aguilar CamÍn and Lorenzo Meyer, two of Mexico's leading intellectuals, set out to fill a void in the literature on Mexican history: the lack of a single text to cover the history of contemporary Mexico during the twentieth century. A la sombra de la RevoluciÓn Mexicana, now available in English as In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution, covers the Mexican Revolution itself, the gradual consolidation of institutions, the CÁrdenas regime, the "Mexican economic miracle" and its subsequent collapse, and the recent transition toward a new historical period. The authors offer a comprehensive and authoritative study of Mexico's turbulent recent history, a history that increasingly intertwines with that of the United States. Given the level of interest in Mexico-likely to increase still more as a result of the recent liberalization of trade policies-this volume will be useful in affording U. S. readers an intelligent, comprehensive, and accessible study of their neighbor to the south.