La dimension desconocida / The Twilight Zone
Nona Fernandez
La dimension desconocida / The Twilight Zone
Nona Fernandez
Finalista de los mejores libros traducidos de los National Book Awards 2021
Las historias de La dimension desconocida, dice la narradora, siempre han estado pisandome los talones. Naci con ellas incorporadas en un album familiar que no elegi ni organice .
Novela galardonada con el Premio Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz 2017.
En plena dictadura chilena, un angustiado hombre llega a las oficinas de una revista de oposicion. Es un agente de la policia secreta. Quiero hablar, dice, y una periodista prende su grabadora para escuchar un testimonio que abrira las puertas de una dimension hasta entonces desconocida.
Siguiendo la hebra de esta escena real, Nona Fernandez activa los mecanismos de la imaginacion para acceder a aquellos rincones donde la memoria y los archivos no han podido llegar.
Confrontando su propia experiencia con los relatos del hombre que torturaba, la narradora entra en las vidas de los protagonistas de ese testimonio ominoso: la de un padre que es detenido en una micro mientras lleva a sus hijos al colegio y la de un nino que cambia de nombres y de vidas hasta ser testigo de una masacre, entre otras.
Nona Fernandez construye un relato a partir de la mala conciencia de un personaje insondable, exponiendo e iluminando esa zona de locura y extravio que esta mucho mas cerca de lo que pensamos y que puede hacer de un ser humano una bestia. Una novela que cautiva, conmueve y remece.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
2021 National Book Awards Finalist for Translated Literature
An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of Space Invaders.
Winner of the 2017 Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize.
In the middle of the Chilean dictatorship, a distraught man goes into the offices of an opposition magazine. He’s a secret police agent. I want to speak, he says, and a journalist turns on her tape recorder to listen to a testimony that will open the doors of an, until then, unknown dimension.
Following the thread of this real-life event, Nona Fernandez activates her imagination to access those corners where memory and investigative files have not been able to reach.
Having to confront her own experiences with that of the torturer, the narrator enters the lives of the protagonists of that menacing testimony: that of a father detained in a bus while taking his children to school, and that of a child who must continue to change his name and make up different life stories until one day he witnesses a massacre, among others.
Nona Fernandez builds a story based on the bad conscience of an unfathomable character, exposing and shining a light to that area of madness and loss that is much closer than we think, and that can turn a human being into a beast. A novel that captivates, moves you, and shakes you.
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