The 3 best books by Martín Caparros

The Argentine writer Martin Caparrós In his work he encompasses a very broad spectrum of concerns made as transmission belts between fiction and essay. From an existentialist plane brilliantly faced even from the science fiction dystopian to a social critique that delves into endemic evils of our society.

Come on, what is usually cited as a committed writer, a chronicler of his days who deepens, performs that exercise of prospecting and projection that is literature with a desire to settle, of transcendence.

If we also add an exquisite characterization of his characters to that verisimilitude from which any intention of plot mimicry starts, we end up discovering a relevant narrator of our days, a guy who is happy to read to rethink everything from a critical viewing in an action perfectly sustained novelistic.

Top 3 recommended novels by Martín Caparrós

Endless

It could not be otherwise. Everything that involves telling us something from a cifi budget predisposes me to determine a surplus value that surely for others is not so justified compared to the rest of the work of any author. But that's how my tastes are and this is my favorite.

Sinfín is a hyperbolic dystopia that orbits around the great human obsession: immortality. A novel in which the Argentine writer and journalist Martín Caparrós combines the best of journalistic writing and fiction.

The error is the body. To die is to fail. In 2070, a new form of eternal life has become the greatest achievement of our civilization. The pronounced Chinese word tsian -paradise- it is the invention that the great Samar offered to the world and that has transformed the lives and deaths of billions. But beyond what the official mythology tells, no one knows its true story.

Endless It begins in a small town in the Patagonian jungle, a remote place frozen in time where disease, old age and death still exist. There begins the search for the woman who will reveal the true story: the silenced human sacrifices, the hidden interests and the circumstances that led to the most surprising leap in human technique in a world that, meanwhile, is unraveling in religious wars and migrations. endless.

Endless It is not a novel without fiction but a fiction without a novel. It is the trustworthy account of something that has not yet finished happening: a fascinating and revealing story told in the manner of the best chronicles, thought in the manner of the best essays, which offers the least known data, the most daring hypotheses, the definitive analyzes. about that stroke of genius that would end up changing the world.

Sinfín, by Martín Caparrós

The Living

A generational portrait, a mosaic of a time in the city of Buenos Aires as a synecodche for all of Argentina. A few convulsive days where the young Martín Caparrós was left with his ideals and his first great perceptions about an unjust world and a society that is often indolent.

Nito was born in Buenos Aires on the day Juan Domingo Perón dies, July 74. His childhood is a childhood like so many, twisted, unforgiving, made up of possible and impossible loves, learnings and terrors, against the background of Argentina's turbulent history.

His early years are also marked by the confused death of his loved ones: his father, his grandfather. And Nito feels more and more fascinated by this transit, more haunted by doubts: what is our relationship with the dead? Can you keep in touch with them? Are they still with us? Years later, when he meets the Pastor and becomes his sharpest weapon, the invention of living will allow him to venture an answer - provisional, fragile - to those questions without a possible answer.

With The Living, the great Argentine writer Martín Caparrós delves into our relationship with death, with the dead and their disappearance from our lives. The Living it is a story that goes from farce to tragedy –and vice versa– without ever losing the sharp gaze, the emotion, the surprising prose. A daring, dazzling novel, full of humor and sadness, which offers us an acid vision of the contemporary world, of its folds and bewilderment, of its fundamental silences. Essential.

The History

From the search for oneself, the need to locate ourselves beyond the only small country that can be the lap of a mother is born. Beyond everything is confusing, homeland, country, nation, belonging, culture. So in this novel Martín Caparrós fictionalizes about other possible stories that would never have reached black on white.

An unknown Argentine historian discovers in a French library a mysterious book that perhaps contains the founding myth of his country. The historian decides to dedicate his life to studying and writing down this text, which tells everything about a barely known civilization whose influence can nevertheless be traced in the thought of the Enlightenment and in modern revolutions.

That chronicle titled The History and the notes of his exegete present in detail the life of that imaginary civilization: its sexual customs, its gastronomy, its mortuary rites, its commerce, its forms of warfare, its literature, its architecture, its loves, its diseases, its industry, its theology, its courtly intrigues, its end ... Compendium of modern knowledge, a melting pot of false –or true? - quotes from Voltaire, Kyriakov, Sarmiento, Quevedo, Nietzsche or Bakunin, The History it is a stimulating challenge for the reader, a monumental novel that works like a mirror that returns to us, distorted, our time, its prejudices and acquired truths, its false tinsel and its just glories.

The result is a waste of inventiveness, an exuberant text that Borges could have dreamed of: a thousand crazy, labyrinthine and necessary pages that mark a milestone in Latin American literature.

The History

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Sarmiento

Without having many references to a character with such a localized profile as this Argentine president, already in the XNUMXth century, Caparrós' ability to create that rabid humanity around power with his ability to transform the world into more or less fair decisions. Changes that, of course, when novelized, also end up mutating the skin of a main character like Sarmiento.

At the end of the culminating stretch of his life, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento reviews the most public episodes and the most private corners of his career. Humiliated by deafness, he raises his voice. He talks about the death of his son. He talks about that epidemic that almost killed him. He speaks of the unwanted war that he could not renounce, of the clandestine relationships, of the unexpected respect for the antagonist, of the contempt for those who are most like him, of the always elusive hugs, of the defeats of power.

He speaks: "If it weren't for the stupidity of his enemies, no president would last a week."

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