Con una prosa agil y desenfada, Jose Agustin traza el destino de Eligio y Susana en un mundo gris, superficial aunque capaz de torcer el rumbo de cualquiera. El retrato de los pe rsonajes, a todas luces entranables, y la manera co la prosa se extiende sobre la geografia y la relacion amorosa hacen de Ciudades desiertas una gran novela. El viaje, la huida y la busqueda dela identidad son elementos fundamentales en la narrativa de Jose Agustin. En muchos casos, la busqueda significa adquirir un conocimiento vital, iniciatico las mas de la veces, pues hunde sus raices en el mito. En Ciudades desiertas, ambientada en el fantasmal pero no menos atractivo Estados Unidos, los protagonistas se encuentran para perderse y, mas alla de la vision satirica de la sociedad estadounidense-respuesta a los tantos y tantos analisis superficiales sobre Mexico escritos por intelectuales anglosajones-, encontrmaos una reflexion sobre el hecho amoroso, la renuncia y la aceptacion.

Ciudades desiertas/ Deserted Cities (Contemporanea/ Contemporary) (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Jose Agustin Ramirez

Humor & Satire

Debolsillo]

"The Belly of Tepozteco José Agustín’s work is wide-ranging in register, accomplished, and variegated. Proof of this is that The Belly of Tepozteco, a book meant for a young audience, can nevertheless be fully enjoyed by an adult reader. Under the guise of an adventure novel, The Belly of Tepozteco explores the continued existence of pre-Columbian myths as seen through the eyes of six city kids—Tor, Homero, Érika, Alain, Selene and Yanira. The characters discover that the gods of the old Aztec pantheon have taken refuge in the heart of the mountain, and the children’s presence and entrance into the sanctuary will unleash a war among the deities: some, like Tona, will try to protect them; others will attempt to sacrifice them, forsaking the teachings of Quetzalcóatl. José Agustín narrates the kid’s adventures with amazing ease: his ability to depict the teenage world—an almost childlike universe—and intertwine it with old traditions is wondrous. "

Panza del Tepozteco, La (Contemporanea/ Contemporary) (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

Grijalbo

La tumba es una de las obras que liquidaran el pasado... Una novela extraordinaria Juan Rulfo

La tumba (Contemporanea/ Contemporary) (Spanish Edition)

Dos horas de sol maduro, como sucede con otras novelas de Jose Agustin, lentamente. Sus protagonistas, un editor yuppie y su socio, visitan Acapulco con el pretexto de escribir un reportaje sobre los lugares oscuros del puerto y buscando pasar un buen rato. El viaje, tanto real como simbolico, es el eje central de la trama. En dos horas de sol los deseos de los protagonistas se pierden en la frialdad enexcusable del destino: un huracan arrasa el puerto y modifica los palnes de ambos viajeros. La tormenta desnuda lo que permanecia escondido: mientras uno reniega de la situacion, eln otro se hunde en la vida cotidiana de Acapulco. Esta novela es una alegoria extraordinaria del Mexico de fin de siglo. La traveis, la tormenta, la transformacion de los personajes y sus aventuras, el lado de dos gringas que vacionan en el puerto, son narradas con la soltura extraordinaria y el humor exquisito que caracterizan la narrativa de Jose Agustin.

Dos horas de sol (Contemporanea (Debolsillo)) (Spanish Edition)

La contracultura en mexico (Spanish Edition)

Classics

"Spilt Honey Ever since he began writing, José Agustín has addressed, directly and without constraints, a type of nascent, youthful sexuality that overflows in an almost celebratory fashion. Eroticism, understood as the full enjoyment of sexuality, has been ever present in his work, from De perfil to Vida con mi viuda. Spilt Honey brings together some of José Agustín’s most important erotic tales: from that of a middle class teenager being chased by a maid to another character’s flagellation and escape, or the detailed description (accompanied by all the images that crowd the protagonist’s mind) of how to make love to a prisoner. Eroticism is not only present in sex, but also in the surrounding environment. This is why his stories are equally unsettling and exciting, as well as hard to forget. José Agustín’s narrative wisdom allows his tales to lead us into the realm of love and desire without any kind of guilt. Here is a book that can please its readers, in all senses of the term. "

Miel derramada (Spanish Edition)

Erotica

It’s Getting Late (End in the Lagoon) is considered by critics one of the great Mexican novels of the late millennium. Set in Acapulco during the early 1970s, it tells of the never-ending trip undertaken by a tarot reader and an Acapulco drug-dealer, who are engaged in an incredible sadomasochistic relationship, and a quiet and wise homosexual youth, who counteracts the book’s vertigo. These characters enter an event-packed whirlwind where drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, irreverence, and rebellion serve as triggers for a profound personal search. Witten with terrifying intensity, It’s Getting Late (End in the Lagoon) explores human nature and reflects the end of an era while describing the beginning of another one. In this book, José Agustín turns our gaze onto ourselves while masterfully combining depth and humor, two elements that characterize all of his work. "

Se esta haciendo tarde (Spanish Edition)

Genre Fiction

Life with my Widow is a game of mirrors where reality loses its contours as it comes in touch with the intangible and the non-existent comes to life in its very deathbed-a thriller as provocative and funny as it is disturbing and enigmatic. The main character, the husband of an indigenous Oaxaca shamaness, watches an identical man die. As the unknown man draws his last breath, the protagonist of this insightful narrative decides to switch identities. He wants to know what his wife and children will do once he is dead. What he fails to foresee is that he will also inherit the terrible commitments of the man whose identity he has adopted. Winner of the 2005 Mazatlán Literature Prize, Life with my Widow confirms José Agustín as one of the greatest, most original and insightful voices in contemporary Mexican literature, an author in full command of his art.

Vida con mi viuda (Contemporanea) (Spanish Edition)

Literary

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