Hermann Ungar, Jew in former Czechoslovakia, writer influenced by Thomas Mann and determined to write about the unstoppable drives that move the human being. Between dreams and sex, between dehumanization, tragedy and the comic of surviving oneself. A search for the human being from nothing, from the absence of all emotional or moral conditioning factors.
It can be said that in his not too long narrative, Hermann Ungar went out of his way more than any other writer. It seems as if it were not a question of writing as a search for a trade or intellectual entertainment, rather it is the announcement of an intention because it is brief in the definition of our existence, in the search for the engine, for the spark of life that makes us who we are.
In defeat man is faced with a world without disguise. Hermann finds the ideal character in the loser. In the one to whom nothing is given, in the one who continues naked his wandering through the world manages to draw us all, oblivious as we are to any artifice when the lucidity of our essence assails us.
An existentialist author. Or the existentialist author. The essence of everything, even existentialism, can be presented to us in the synthetic, in the reduced, in what we can remember as the echoes of a distant Wagner opera.
Synopsis: Discovering Hermann Ungar, a true master of XNUMXth century Central European narrative, is perhaps the most absorbing and disturbing experience of all the readers can face. Violent and neurotic, with a calculated sadism, his expressionist prose casts a cruel glance on the characters - those always defeated, superfluous and anodyne beings, the sterile product of an ill-fated Mitteleuropa -, turning what in Kafka is a parable into a grotesque delirium, in an infernal gallery, in a cabinet of distorting mirrors and, for that very reason, terrifyingly accurate.
This volume offers for the first time to Spanish-speaking readers its complete narrative - of which a large part has remained unpublished to date -, consisting of two novels and a series of short stories and news.
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