Los Ingravidos
Valeria Luiselli
Los Ingravidos
Valeria Luiselli
Shifting between two distinctivevoices, this novel is alternately narrated bya modern-day woman living in Mexico and by poet Gilberto Owen while on the verge of death. While the womanrecalls her youthful years as an editor in New York City, haunted by Owen’s ghost as she rode the subway, Owen recalls his own youth during the Harlem Renaissanceof the late 1920s, when he belonged toliterary circlesalong with writers such as Louis Zukofsky and Federico Garcia Lorca. Readers will be enthralled by these parallel subterranean journeys as both narrators retell and explore their pastsas part ofNew York'sliterary world. Moviendose entre dos voces distintivas, esta novela es narrada alternativamente por una mujer viviendo en el Mexico de hoy endia y por el poeta Gilberto Owen al borde de la muerte. Mientras la mujer recuerda sus anos de juventud como editora en Nueva York, perseguida por el fantasma de Owen cuando montaba el metro, Owen recuerda su propia juventud durante el Renacimiento de Harlem a finales de los 1920s cuando pertenecia a circulos literarios junto a escritores como Louis Zukofsky y Federico Garcia Lorca. Los lectores seran cautivados por estos paralelos viajes subterraneos mediante los cuales ambos narradores recuentan y exploran sus pasados como partes del mundo literario neoyorquino.
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