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Laura Restrepo
Delirio
Title: Delirio
Author: Laura Restrepo
Format:
Language: Spanish
Pages: 342
Publisher: Alfaguara, 1080777600
ISBN: 9681914724
Format: PDF / Kindle / ePub
Size: 8.1 MB
Download: allowed
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Un hombre regresa a casa después de un corto viaje de negocios y encuentra que su esposa
ha enloquecido completamente. No tiene idea de qué le ha pudo haber ocurrido durante los
tres días de su ausencia, y con el fin de ayudarla a salir de la crisis empieza a investigar, sólo
para descubrir lo poco que sabe sobre las profundas perturbaciones escondidas en el pasado
de la mujer que ama.
Narrada con talento y emoción, la historia principal de esta novela se fragmenta en otras que
se anudan a través de personajes llenos de matices. La autora muestra en esta obra una
energía narrativa fuera de lo común, en donde el suspenso se mantiene hasta un final
esperanzador que cierra una hermosa novela, bien construida, mejor contada y brillantemente
desarrollada.
Insightful reviews
Gabbo: Laura Restrepo's touching, compelling and beautifully crafted novel is, on one level, a
work of historical fiction. Set in the mid-1980s, to a soundtrack of disco, Flashdance and Celia
Cruz, it revisits the frenzied heyday of the cocaine baron Pablo Escobar, who twisted the
rapacious Bogotá elite and thus Colombia itself around his infinitely crafty fingers. "The fat guy,"
as one of his jittery enforcers puts it, "has already swallowed us whole".
Restrepo paints the pervasive misery that cocaine cash (and the misbegotten US "war on
drugs") brought in brief, shocking strokes, from the hooker murdered in a sado-masochistic
show staged to arouse a paralysed oligarch to Escobar's own vengeful campaign, via bomb and
bullet, "to spend my fortune making this country weep". However, her focus lies elsewhere, on
the family cruelties and lies of the elite that made them so vulnerable to moral and financial
kidnap by this thug: "all those years of secret lives and hidden loves".
Agustina, the troubled and apparently "psychic" daughter of a stiff patriarchal clan, has suddenly
slipped into a "quagmire of madness" after years of bipolar swings and dips. Her husband
Aguilar – once a professor, but now a pet-food salesman – rescues her from a hotel. With help
from her free-spirited Aunt Sofi, he sets about piecing together the "catalogue of basic
falsehoods" that has controlled her rigid family for decades, wrecked her peace of mind, and
sent her beloved gay brother Bichi into a self-chosen Mexican exile.
Restrepo tells this chronicle of a craziness foretold through deftly intersecting monologues. She
shifts between three unhappily privileged generations of Londoños, the baffled devotion of
Aguilar to his unfathomable wife, and the outsider's view provided by Midas McAlister.
Agustina's ex-lover, Midas is a poor, smart boy made bad who, thanks to a middle-management
role in the Escobar empire, can seek his revenge for humiliation at the hands of a governing
class that even inherits "christening gowns starched by Carmelite nuns".
For all the violence and hypocrisy of its hinterland, Delirium feels cheeringly awash with love:
the love that Agustina gives, and inspires; the underground alliances that bind family members
against the official myths that imprison them; and the everyday passions and affections that let
the ordinary people of Bogotá find a way through the collective madness around them
Ariadna73: "A mí me encantó esta novela cuando la leí. Después se la mandé a mi tía para que
ella la disfrutara, y me contó que el día que comenzó a leerla, no la pudo soltar hasta
terminarla. Esto tuvo como consecuencia que ese día no se levantara de la cama, no se
duchara, no preparara los alimentos (con las consabidas quejas de mi hermano), y no hiciera
ninguna de sus labores de ama de casa.
Cuando le van a vender a uno la novela, le cuentan que es la historia de un señor que se va de
viaje de negocios, y al regresar, se encuentra que su mujer está desnuda en una habitación de
hotel, delirando completamente loca. Uno supone que la novela es el recorrido de este hombre
por saber qué fue lo que le ocurrió a su mujer en el fin de semana que él estuvo ausente.
Lo chistoso es que por muy rara que nos parezca la situación al prinicipio, al final terminamos
pensando que eso era lo menos extraño que había pasado en la vida de esta muchacha tan
alocada. El capítulo que disfruté al máximo, es cuando el hombre recuerda como en una de sus
peleas él se fue a la casa de su exesposa, y hasta allí lo persiguió la muchacha -delirando-,
pero teniendo muy claro qué era lo que iba a hacer allí (recuperar a su amor). Está escrito en
un lenguaje fresco, ligero, ameno y divertido. Vale la pena leerlo y lo recomiendo ampliamente.
"
Salazar Ramírez Juan: Es sorprendente como plasma las pasiones más profundas de la
sociedad colombiana a través de sus personajes como: La compasión, el miedo, la
incertidumbre, el amor, el deseo de poder, la tristeza, la alegría, todo plasmado con una técnica
narrativa exquisita e impecable. Delirio es un delicioso reto; yendo del pasado al presente nos
adentra en un ambiente golpeado por el narcotráfico y la violencia.
Laura Restrepo Nos abre la puerta humildemente con las manos retorciendose y tragando
saliva, pero con la esperanza de que podremos comprender nuestra propia locura, la locura de
lo cotidiano.
Nan: It’s an exceptional booklet yet it’s very doubtful and hard to appreciate too simply
because it’s written during this specific way: the writer divided the tale into little extracts that at
the beginning don’t healthy at all! however the extra you read, the extra you get the plot
anyway. possibly she did this for you to attach it with the title: “Delirium”. the most personality
descended from a relatives with psychological disdorders which she persevered also. It
describes her tale and the way her husband struggled to discover a remedy or at the very least
a solution in a rustic occupied via war, medicines and social instability. Her brother, the little boy
Bichi, suffers much cuz his father hates him for being various until eventually he will get drained
and eventually leaves domestic to be unfastened in Mexico. Bichi is a sturdy and gentle
character. It’s challenging to read, but if you’re finished, you are making all of it healthy
together.
Elektragedia: hace dos días termine de leerte, si el jueves, no eres malo, eres una radiografia
agradable de como somos los colombianos, hay humor, y algo de suspenso, eres un muy buen
libro, ya quiero tener mi copia.Fue una excelente elección a l. a. hora del travel literario
Roberto: Este libro fue una muy agradable sorpresa. Hacía tiempo que no leía una novela en
español que me gustara tanto. Tiene ese sabor specific de una historia meramente
latinoamericana, pero es diferente y está contada de una manera muy original.
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