Mariana Enríquez En un conjunto residencial de lujo, dos adolescentes inadaptados se reúnen por las noches para embriagarse a escondidas y compartir sus descabelladas fantasías. Franco Andrade, obeso y solitario, adicto a la pornografía, sueña con seducir a la vecina de al lado -una atractiva mujer casada, madre de familia-, por quien ha desarrollado una obsesión malsana; mientras que Polo, su reacio compañero, fantasea con renunciar a su agobiante empleo como jardinero del exclusivo fraccionamiento y huir de su casa, de su pueblo infestado de narcos, y del yugo de su dominante madre. Ante la imposibilidad de conseguir lo que cada uno cree merecer, Franco y Polo maquinarán un plan tan pueril como macabro. Páradais, escrita por Fernanda Melchor, una de las escritoras mexicanas más destacadas de la actualidad, explora la facilidad con la que el deseo puede convertirse en obsesión y, más aún, en violencia, al tiempo que narra la alianza entre los polos opuestos de la sociedad mexicana contemporánea. Mariana Enr̕quez In a luxury residential complex, two misfit teenagers meet at night to secretly get drunk and share their crazy fantasies. Franco Andrade, obese and lonely, addicted to pornography, dreams of seducing the next door neighbor -an attractive married woman, mother of a family-, for whom he has developed an unhealthy obsession; while Polo, his reluctant partner, fantasizes about giving up his crippling job as a gardener for the exclusive subdivision and fleeing his home, his drug-infested town, and the yoke of his overbearing mother. Faced with the impossibility of getting what each one believes they deserve, Franco and Polo will devise a plan as childish as it is macabre. P̀radais, written by Fernanda Melchor, one of the most outstanding Mexican writers of today, explores the ease with which desire can turn into obsession and, even more, into violence, while narrating the alliance between the opposite poles of the contemporary Mexican society.
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