Materia dispuesta
| Title | Materia dispuesta |
|---|---|
| Author | Villoro, Juan |
| Publisher | Almadía Ediciones, S. A. P. I. de C. V. |
| Imprint | Almadia |
| ISBN | 9786078851294 |
| Edition number | 1 |
| Publication year | 2023 |
| Pages | 280 |
| Format | Printed |
| THEMA | Fiction and Related items |
| Synopsis | After the 1957 earthquake expelled his family from the cosmopolitan center of Mexico City, Mauricio Guardiola spent his childhood and adolescence on the streets of Terminal Progreso, a neighborhood embedded in the semi-rural landscape of Xochimilco that seems to have crystallized the promises of a bright future into simple nostalgia for the future. In the shadow of his father—a vehement and womanizing architect, obsessed with capturing Mexican identity in his buildings—and haunted by the edifying phrases his mother sticks on the refrigerator door, Mauricio begins his sexuality, friendship, love, and the search for a vocation through a series of characters who are shaped by their obsessions. But is it possible to acquire firm convictions on shaky ground? In a territory as hesitant as Mexico City, any certainty can seem absurd. With athletic prose and a great sense of humor, Juan Villoro constructs an ironic reverse of the coming-of-age novel in which adulthood is shown as a condition of inadequacy. More than twenty years after its first publication, Almadía reissues Materia funcionable, crucible of the obsessions and literary genius of one of the most recognized and beloved writers of the Spanish language. |
| foreign rights contact | Elizabet Osorio Osorio |
| eosorio@corporativoventura.mx |
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