La velocidad de la luz / The Speed of Light
Javier Cercas
La velocidad de la luz / The Speed of Light
Javier Cercas
Esta es la historia de una amistad que empieza en 1987, cuando el narrador, un joven aspirante a novelista, viaja a una universidad del Medio Oeste estadounidense y conoce a Rodney Falk, su companero de despacho, un ex combatiente de Vietnam hurano e inabordable, ferozmente lucido y corroido en secreto por su pasado. Pero esta es tambien la historia de una experiencia radical en el abismo indescifrable del mal y la culpa, que el propio narrador solo lograra entender y asumir anos mas tarde, como en una fulguracion, cuando conozca el exito y lo que este tiene de corrupcion insidiosa. Para entonces la figura imprecisa de Rodney y su historia devastadora se le acabaran imponiendo con la fuerza de lo necesario, como un emblema de su propia historia, y acaso de la condicion humana. Con una escritura de enganosa transparencia y una trama que no da tregua al lector, La velocidad de la luz indaga en nuestra ilimitada capacidad de hacer dano, en la infinita estupidez de la guerra y en la infinita estupidez del exito, pero sobre todo en el poder definitivo de la literatura para enfrentarse a la realidad y exorcizar sus demonios. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The story of a young novelist who, over time, must conquer his demons. This is the story of a friendship that starts in 1987, when the narrator, a young aspiring novelist, travels to a university in the Midwest and meets his roommate, Rodney Falk, a shy, unapproachable Vietnam veteran, ferociously clearheaded and secretly haunted by his past. But this is also the story of a radical experience in the indecipherable abyss of evil and guilt, that the narrator himself will only manage to understand and accept years later, as if in a flash, as he experiences success and its insidious corruption. With deceivingly transparent writing and a plot that doesn’t give the reader a break, The Speed of Light delves into our unlimited capacity to do harm, into the infinite stupidity of war and success, but above all into the definitive power of literature for facing reality and exorcising our demons.
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