Patricio Pron

Esta compilaci n es el resultado de la transcripci n textual de los conversatorios que tuvieron lugar en Zoom, en marzo de 2024, con motivo del vig simo aniversario de A Contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos. Dichos conversatorios contaron con la participaci n de cuatro destacados escritores latinoamericanos, Pola Oloixarac (Argentina), Jorge Volpi (M xico), Patricio Pron (Argentina) y Nona Fern ndez (Chile); asimismo, sus interlocutores fueron los cr ticos Ariel Schettini, H ctor Jaimes, Greg Dawes y Mar a Rosa Olivera-Williams, respectivamente. En las reflexiones generadas a partir de estos di logos se exploran las formas en que la literatura act a como herramienta de resistencia frente al neoliberalismo contempor neo.

Esta obra constituye un ensayo acerca del papel de la literatura en la sociedad actual. Algo despu s de la publicaci n de Alicia en el pa s de las maravillas, Lewis Carroll admiti que hab a creado el personaje del Conejo Blanco para ofrecer un "contraste" con "la juventud, la audacia, la energ a y la suave resoluci n' con la que Alicia persigue sus objetivos. Que nos hayamos convertido en el Conejo Blanco supone que, con su prisa, tambi n hemos hecho nuestros el envejecimiento, la falta de audacia, el desinter s y la inconstancia que lo caracterizan en oposici n a la protagonista del libro, pero tambi n significa que, en la imitaci n de Alicia, en particular, y en la literatura, en general, hay una probable soluci n al problema de la exigencia de "m s, antes, para m s personas, m s r pido". En oposici n a la demanda de que nuestras pr cticas y nuestros intercambios sean m s y m s veloces, la literatura constituye una pr ctica lo suficientemente lenta como para constituir un refugio--de hecho, una forma de resistencia--ante el imperativo de ir m s y m s r pidamente. De todo libro--aunque quiz s no de uno como este--se deriva una coherencia que puede servir como modelo para la rehabilitaci n de un retrato congruente de nosotros mismos y de nuestros v nculos con los dem s.

«Perspicaz, de inteligencia sutil, estilo exquisito, Pron es uno de los escritores m s importantes en lengua espa ola. -Alberto Manguel Un circo representa una ltima funci n que acaba en tragedia, un periodista busca una historia que jam s podr permitirse contar, una vaca argentina vislumbra el instante antes de que todo cambie para siempre, varios ni os desaparecen en un pueblo alem n, un hombre trata de recrear el momento m s feliz de su vida... Con ecos de Borges, de Bola o, de Aira, y de escritoras que considera sus maestras, como Flannery O'Connor, Lorrie Moore y Amy Hempel, los relatos de Patricio Pron, perturbadores, rompedores, llenos de humor y toques surrealistas, cautivan desde la primera l nea. Este volumen recoge una selecci n de autor en la que, junto a algunas de sus piezas m s celebradas por la cr tica, como «Salon des refus s , «Es el realismo , «Las ideas o «La repetici n , se encuentran otras poco conocidas y m s de diez in ditas, de escritura muy reciente. Cada una de ellas proporciona una experiencia de lectura deslumbrante y nica, la oportunidad de emprender un viaje hacia lo desconocido e inesperado. Tray ndolo todo de regreso a casa nos asoma al universo narrativo de uno de los autores m s radicalmente originales del panorama literario contempor neo en espa ol. «Muestra de forma convincente (a la vez que explora) el poder que posee la ficci n para descubrir las verdades emocionales m s profundamente enterradas. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Insightful, subtle intelligence, exquisite style, Pron is one of the most important writers in the Spanish language". -Alberto manguelA circus represents a final performance that ends in tragedy, a journalist searches for a story that he can never afford to tell, an Argentine cow glimpses the moment before everything changes forever, several children disappear in a German town, a man tries to recreate the happiest moment of his life... With echoes of Borges, Bola o, Aira, and writers he considers his teachers, such as Flannery O'Connor, Lorrie Moore and Amy Hempel; Patricio Pron's stories, disturbing, groundbreaking, full of humor and with a touch of the surreal, captivate from the first line. This volume is a collection from the author in which, along with some of his most celebrated pieces, such as "Salon des refus s," "Es el realismo," "Las ideas" or "La repetici n," there are little known titles and more than ten of his recent unpublished stories. Each of them provides a dazzling and unique reading experience, the opportunity to embark on a journey into the unknown and unexpected. Bringing It All Back Home brings us into the narrative universe of one of the most radically original authors on the contemporary Spanish literary scene. "It convincingly shows (while exploring) the power of fiction to uncover the most deeply buried emotional truths.

Pinerolo, Italy. April 1945. At a fascist conference, a writer disappears and is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Thirty years later, a young man--a political activist or maybe a terrorist--interviews the survivors to try to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. Who was this writer? What did he believe in? Why, shortly before his death, did he save a man who could have killed him? Where is his lost work? And what does any of this have to do with a teenager in contemporary Milan involved in a violent confrontation with the police? Bold and incisive, Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets is a gripping examination of art-as-politics and politics-as-crime.

De bor i Madrid och har levt tillsammans i fem år. Hon är arkitekt och känner sig mer hemma i de nybyggda husen i Madrids förorter än i miljonstadens centrum. Hon ser på deras förhållande som ett livsprojekt. Han skriver böcker - en inåtvänd essäist med intresse för de mest aparta ämnen. När Hon bryter upp blir Han yrvaket medveten om sin ensamhet och isolering. Vännerna kommer till bådas undsättning. Vännerna, som redan är på Tinder, som dejtar och omhuldar sin persona i sociala medier. Var och en för sig prövar därför Hon och Han sina chanser "på marknaden" bland kärlekstörstande singlar. Utan vare sig någon större entusiasm eller lycka. De dras hela tiden tillbaka till varandra, drivna av en mystiska längtan och saknad. Runt en separation tecknar Patricio Pron bilden av ett samhälle och en tidsanda som gör förälskelsen till performance och kärleken till en vara.

The American debut of one of Granta s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, My Fathers Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain is a daring and deeply affecting story of one Argentine family s buried secrets. When a young writer returns home to visit his dying father, he finds himself drawn into an obsessive search for a local man gone missing. As the truth not only about his father but an entire generation comes to light, the narrator is forced to confront the ghosts of Argentina s dark political past, as well as long-hidden memories about his own family s history. Powerful and audacious, this semi-autobiographical novel is a thoroughly original story of corruption and responsibility, of history and remembrance, from one of South America s most important new writers."

This is a daring, deeply affecting novel about the secrets buried in the past of an Argentine family; a story of fathers and sons, corruption and responsibility, memory and history, with a mystery at its heart. A young writer, living abroad, returns home to his native Argentina to say goodbye to his dying father. In his parents' house, he finds a cache of documents - articles, maps, photographs - and unwittingly begins to unearth his father's obsession with the disappearance of a local man. Suddenly he comes face to face with the ghosts of Argentina's dark political past and with the long-hidden memories of his family's underground resistance against an oppressive military regime. As the fragments of the narrator's investigation fall into place - revealing not only a part of his father's life he had tried to forget, but also the legacy of an entire generation - My Father's Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain tells a completely original story of family and remembrance. It is an audacious accomplishment by an internationally acclaimed voice.