Blackouts (Spanish Edition)

Finalista del Premio Lambda en Ficci?n Gay 2024

Uno de los mejores libros de Amazon de 2024 hasta ahora

Galardonada con el National Book Award 2023, una novela deslumbrante que desentierra un episodio fundacional de la comunidad queer y explora los or?genes de su patologizaci?n.

«Se difuminan los l?mites de la Historia, la autobiograf?a y la ficci?n con el arte. Hermoso . -Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal

En un remoto asilo en el desierto, un hombre joven acompa?a a un moribundo. Han pasado diez a?os desde que coincidieran brevemente en una instituci?n psiqui?trica. Ahora, el que est? punto de morir le pide al otro que termine el proyecto al que ha dedicado su vida: la reconstrucci?n de la singular historia de Jan Gay. Esta investigadora, escritora y activista queer de principios del siglo XX dedic? su vida a documentar las vidas lesbianas y la cultura nudista en Estados Unidos y Europa, y sin embargo su trabajo fue el origen de un manual sobre la homosexualidad como perversi?n titulado Desviaciones sexuales: un estudio de los patrones homosexuales.

La lectura de las misteriosas p?ginas tachadas de dicho manual infame acompa?ar? las vigilias diurnas que siguen a las calurosas noches de insomnio de aquellos dos hombres. En las horas de oscuridad mantendr?n una larga conversaci?n sobre sus vidas y las de Jan Gay y los sujetos que participaron en la truncada investigaci?n.

En este atmosf?rico relato de amor, que es a la vez un collage documental y un homenaje a Pedro P?ramo y El beso de la mujer ara?a, Justin Torres desentierra un episodio borrado de la historia estadounidense para explorar los or?genes de la patologizaci?n de la comunidad queer; una bella e imaginativa novela que ha sido merecedora del National Book Award.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

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Finalist of the Lambda Award in Gay Fiction 2024
Winner of the National Book Award
Winner of the California Book Award
Winner of Tournament of Books

Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book―Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns―and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried. The voices of these subjects have been filtered, muted, but it is possible to hear them from within and beyond the text, which, in Juan's tattered volumes, has been redacted with black marker on nearly every page. As Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator recount for each other moments of joy and oblivion; they resurrect loves, lives, mothers, fathers, minor heroes. In telling their own stories and the story of the book, they resist the ravages of memory and time. The past is with us, beside us, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures?

A book about storytelling―its legacies, dangers, delights, and potential for change―and a bold exploration of form, art, and love, Justin Torres's Blackouts uses fiction to see through the inventions of history and narrative. A marvel of creative imagination, it draws on testimony, photographs, illustrations, and a range of influences as it insists that we look long and steadily at what we have inherited and what we have made―a world full of ghostly shadows and flashing moments of truth. A reclamation of ransacked history, a celebration of defiance, and a transformative encounter, Blackouts mines the stories that have been kept from us and brings them into the light.

Author: Justin Torres
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Published: 01/21/2025
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9788439744153
Language: Spanish

About the Author
Justin Torres (Nueva York, 1980) es una joven promesa de la literatura norteamericana. Justin tambi?n trabaja como profesor en la Universidad de California. Algunos de sus relatos han aparecido en The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, entre otros. Nosotros los animales, que supone su debut como novelista, ha sido adaptada al cine.