Rodrigo Fresán Bücher

Highly anticipated conclusion to Fresán's Part Trilogy, which includes the Best Translated Book Award winning The Invented Part

Highly anticipated sequel to the Best Translated Book Award winning novel, The Invented Part

A sprawling epic about imagination, creation, and reality in the vein of Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow.

Spanning more than a century from the late Victorian period - and the intimately-drawn details of the life of J. M. Barrie - to the dawn of the new millennium and the fractured life of an internationally acclaimed children's novelist, Peter Hook, Kensington Gardens weaves an intricate cat's cradle of narratives around the lysergic London of the Swinging Sixties and the boy who never grew up. Growing up in a vast west London estate called Neverland, Hook's childhood was shaped by the mysterious death of his younger brother, his parents' rock-n-roll lifestyle and his father's performances in a seminal band of the time. Yet despite such dysfunctional beginnings, Hook has become the most successful children's author of his generation as the creator of the time-travelling Jim Yang.

Prvotina uznávaného argentinského autora se pohybuje na pomezí povídek a románu. Kapitoly sice spojují některé postavy, situace a motivy, ovšem čtenář často nepozná, která postava je fiktivní a která reálná, do kterého z těchto světů jednotlivé osoby patří a jak spolu souvisí. A tak se například osamělí gaučové prohánějí argentinskou pampou, kuchařský učeň chystá pomstu v luxusní restauraci, hrdina ztraceného románu srazí ve spěchu J. L. Borgese a partyzán na útěku si vychutnává pařížský croissant. Příběhů je ještě mnoho a stejně tak rozmanitá je podoba vyprávění. Roztříštěnost románu souvisí se skrytými úvahami o roli spisovatele a jeho vztahu ke skutečnosti, o paměti a historii a zejména o autorově vlasti v 70. a 80. letech 20. století, přičemž hlavními tématy jsou politické vraždy a válka o Falklandy.

«Fresán conjura una escritura hipnótica de rara belleza. Melvill es una invitación a caminar sobre el hielo.» MARIANA ENRIQUEZ Regístrese y archívese, aunque se prefiera no hacerlo: Es la noche del 10 de diciembre de 1831 y Allan Melvill cruza a pie el congelado río Hudson. A partir de las figuras de Herman Melville y de su padre Allan Melvill —surcando días de infancia junto al lecho de un alucinado y noches de escritor crepuscular que ya no empuña pluma ni arpón— Melvill sale a la caza del enigma de la siempre huérfana vocación literaria, del legado del estigma familiar, de los navegantes de la ficción y de los náufragos de la realidad. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION “Fresan conjures up a hypnotic writing of rare beauty. Melvill is an invitation to walk on ice." —MARIANA ENRIQUEZ Document it and file it, even if it’s better not to: It's the night of December 10, 1831, and Allan Melvill is walking across the frozen Hudson River. Based on Herman Melville and his father Allan Melvill—plowing through childhood days at the bedside of a hallucinated man and nights as a twilight writer who no longer wields a pen nor harpoon— Melvill goes on the hunt for the enigma of the always orphaned literary vocation, for the legacy of family stigma, the steersmen of fiction, and the castaways of reality.