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La Casa Grande / The Big House
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ISBN10: 9589016987
ISBN13: 9789589016985
Publisher: Debolsillo
Published: Dec 8 2026
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.81
Language: Spanish
ISBN13: 9789589016985
Publisher: Debolsillo
Published: Dec 8 2026
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.81
Language: Spanish
Esta novela es uno de los puntos de partida del boom latinoamericano. La célebre masacre de las bananeras es el pretexto para meditar sobre la violencia, en esta novela que tiene como marco esta tragedia, pero en la que no hay tiros ni sangre. Los miembros de una familia son los mejores exponentes de la honda tensión que se vive en esa casa grande; que es un paÃs condenado al fratricidio. Cepeda Samudio, como lo hiciera GarcÃa Márquez, salió del periodismo, lo que le brindó a su narrativa una agilidad y un modo de contar los sucesos -ya fueran ficción, ya fueran crónica absolutamente contemporáneo y preciso. La casa grande, siendo una novela hermosa, es un experimento arriesgado, y una invitación a meditar sobre los recursos imprevistos, arbitrarios y espantosos de la creación poética... Los diálogos magistrales, la riqueza viril y directa del lenguaje, la compasión legÃtima frente al destino de los personajes, la estructura fragmentada y un poco dispersa que tanto se parece a la de los recuerdos, todo en este libro es un ejemplo magnÃfico de cómo un escritor puede sortear honradamente la inmensa cantidad de basura retórica y demagógica que se interpone entre la indignación y la nostalgia. --Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION This novel is one of the starting points of the Latin American literary boom. The famous banana plantation massacre serves as a pretext to reflect on violence in this novel, which is set against the backdrop of this tragedy but contains neither gunfire nor blood. The members of a family are the best examples of the deep tension that permeates that large house--which is a country doomed to fratricide. Cepeda Samudio, like GarcÃa Márquez before him, came from a journalism background, which gave his narrative a fluidity and a way of recounting events--whether fiction or chronicle--that is utterly contemporary and precise. The Big House, while a beautiful novel, is a risky experiment and an invitation to reflect on the unexpected, arbitrary, and astonishing resources of poetic creation... The masterful dialogues, the virile, direct richness of the language, the genuine compassion for the characters' fates, the fragmented and somewhat scattered structure that so closely resembles that of memories, everything in this book is a magnificent example of how a writer can honestly navigate the immense amount of rhetorical and demagogic trash that stands between indignation and nostalgia. --Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez.
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