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Author:
Oeste, Miguel Ángel, author.
Title:
Vengo de ese miedo / Miguel Ángel Oeste.
Edition:
1.a edición
Publisher:
Tusquets Editores,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
300 pages ; 23 cm
Subject:
Families--Spain--Fiction.
Families
Spain
Fiction
Fiktionale Darstellung.
Novels.
Fiction.
Summary:
Incapaz de visitar a su padre, el narrador de esta historia decide escribir sobre su familia sin contar con ese testimonio. El miedo a estar junto a él lo paraliza. Y así, como una infección que lo invade todo, aflora la narración de este infierno. Su madre, una belleza de menos de veinte años, se dejó seducir por el padre, un hombre dotado de gran encanto entre las amistades y muy generoso con los que le rodeaban en el trabajo, pero un egocéntrico maltratador en casa. En este retrato falsamente doméstico se perfilan los inicios del turismo en la Málaga de los años setenta, cuando el dinero europeo de veraneantes e inversores trajo en plena dictadura una insólita apertura en forma de diversión y juerga, aire fresco para una sociedad que ni en sueños habría imaginado noches de orgías sin fin. Miguel Ángel Oeste desciende al abismo de sus recuerdos y, en una dolorosa investigación, confronta su memoria con la de familiares y conocidos para elaborar un testimonio desgarrador, que a la vez es una crónica de los últimos cuarenta años de este país. Un viaje en el que el miedo es el protagonista, primero como padecimiento y luego como motor de escritura. -- Publisher's website.
Unable to visit his father, the narrator of this story decides to write about his family without having that testimony. The fear of being with him paralyzes him. And so, like an infection that invades everything, the narrative of this hell emerges. His mother, a beauty in her early twenties, was seduced by her father, a man endowed with great charm among friends and very generous with those around him at work, but an egocentric abuser at home. In this falsely domestic portrait, the beginnings of tourism in Malaga in the seventies are outlined, when European money from vacationers and investors brought an unusual opening in the form of fun and revelry, fresh air for a society that even in dreams I would have imagined nights of endless orgies. Miguel Ángel Oeste descends into the abyss of his memories and, in a painful investigation, confronts his memory with that of relatives and acquaintances to elaborate a harrowing testimony, which at the same time is a chronicle of the last forty years of this country. A journey in which fear is the protagonist, first as a disease and then as a writing engine. -- Publisher's website.
Series:
Colección Andanzas ; 1022
ISBN:
8411071561
9788411071567
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1349734714
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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