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Mis documentos (Spanish Edition) Mass Market Paperback – August 15, 2018

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Este libro de relatos puede leerse como una novela, o como once breves novelas archivadas en la carpeta Mis documentos. A veces parece que hablara un mismo personaje, trasunto del autor, que recuerda sus desventuras como estudiante y como profesor, o que registra su malhumorado intento de superar el tabaquismo. Pero la ilusión de una vida propia, fomentada por la famosa carpeta de Windows, se rompe pronto: los documentos de uno son, en el fondo, los documentos de todos, parece decirnos Zambra, en especial si se habita un país que necesita indagar en el pasado.

Con el fino sentido de la ironía y la precisión que ya le conocemos, con humor y melancolía, con espíritu paródico, con aliento lírico y a veces con rabia, Alejandro Zambra traza la anodina existencia de unos hombres que se repliegan en una idea antigua de la masculinidad, o el tránsito de unos seres pendulares que apuestan sus últimas fichas al amor. La incesante búsqueda del padre, la obsolescencia de objetos y de sentimientos que parecían eternos, el desencanto de los jóvenes de la transición, la impostura como única forma de arraigo y la legitimidad del dolor son algunos de los temas que cruzan este libro. Mis documentos muestra a un autor que consolida y proyecta hacia lugares nuevos su personal estilo.

La presente reedición viene acompañada de dos textos, del crítico británico James Wood y la escritora chilena Alejandra Costamagna, que sirven como testimonio de la aceptación crecientemente entusiasta que ha cosechado la trayectoria de Alejandro Zambra por parte de la crítica internacional y de la admiración que suscita entre sus colegas una carrera merecedora de premios muy destacados.

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Alejandro Zambra (Santiago de Chile, 1975) ha publicado, en Anagrama, las novelas Bonsái (2006), La vida privada de los árboles (2007), Formas de volver a casa (2011) y Poeta chileno (2020), el libro de cuentos Mis documentos (2014), las colecciones de ensayos No leer (2018) y Tema libre (2019), y un par de libros bastante más difíciles de clasificar, como el particularísimo Facsímil, que Anagrama recuperó en 2021, y Literatura infantil (2023), una serie de relatos, de ficción y no ficción, sobre infancia y paternidad. Sus novelas han sido traducidas a veinte lenguas, y sus relatos han aparecido en revistas como The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, Granta, Harper’s y McSweeney’s. Ha sido becario de la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York y ha recibido, entre otras distinciones, el English Pen Award, el O. Henry Prize y el Premio Príncipe Claus. Actualmente vive en la Ciudad de México.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Editorial Anagrama; 1st edition (August 15, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Spanish
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8433960253
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8433960252
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean writer. He is the author of Bonsai, The Private Lives of Trees, Ways of Going Home, My Documents and Multiple Choice. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, Harper's, Zoetrope, and McSweeney’s, among other places.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2023
    He’s like Bolano in the sense that everything matters and that we must put it all into perspective to truly understand it. No need for grand tales of royalty or gauzy history. Instead, the daily. The caga we deal with diariamente. Making that worth reading is a gift.
  • Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2020
    La calidad de los cuentos. A veces llevan una historia interesante y bien narrada y en otras de una pesadez que invita a saltarse las páginas
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2017
    A wonderful, imaginative and skillful writer who can rivet the reader's attention effortlessly. Among the best written pieces are failed relationships between people and their often heartbreaking causes.
  • Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2016
    Read it if you like feeling nostalgic or if you just appreciate good writing. You have to know Spanish though
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2015
    Good book reviews so I read it and liked it very much. Will get more of his stuff.

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  • thierry bourragué
    5.0 out of 5 stars Disfruté mucho!
    Reviewed in France on April 7, 2020
    Relatos cortos, bien escritos, sencillos, con mucha sensibildad y sabiduria.
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  • Nomar
    5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELENTE LIBRO
    Reviewed in Mexico on December 18, 2021
    Excelente libro para pasar el rato y distraerte
  • Cliente Amazon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gran descubrimiento
    Reviewed in Spain on April 3, 2020
    Excelente.
    Totalmente recomendable.
  • terence dooley
    5.0 out of 5 stars like so many American writers
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 10, 2015
    Zambra has a very involving and direct voice, and, seeming not to say very much, is always offering a devastating critique of the Chile he grew up in.
    'Grew up' es un decir, is one way of putting it. You can see too why he is (deservedly) popular in the USA - he makes a virtue of his immaturity and lack of direction, like so many American writers.
    You keep thinking: this shouldn't be interesting, isn't in fact interesting. But he writes so well.
  • Claudia Miranda
    5.0 out of 5 stars Recomendable
    Reviewed in Mexico on July 25, 2020
    Es un libro que me gusto mucho la narrativa.