Warning for navigators, the synopsis of this novel could be another novel. But it is that the important things are not explained like that, at the mercy of a mere synthesis. If it is necessary to recreate in the matter, in the action or in the motivations of the characters, then to recreate it comes from the synopsis. Every good story is an eternal return, a circular effect or a game of infinite mirrors that gives a lot of itself and that makes it impossible to summarize.
A plot with a real hook cannot be set in a scenario that does not contemplate that universal centripetal force between onanism, selfishness, navelism and at most the ethnocentrism that gladly covers all of the above like an extensive cloak. The question is how what is seen, what is contemplated with delight, detracts from the hilarious thing when it is rediscovered from the spotlights of others. The others, yes, all those who end up narrating one's life as if they were aseptic guides to the Prado Museum.
This is a novel about four artists from a generation without luck who, after having lost their dreams and ideals, find themselves confined in a garage where one fine day a strange creature appears and offers them a sinister pact.
This is a novel about the life of a Finnish writer in love with Spain named Folke Ingo, who happens to be the author of the adventures of the four aforementioned types.
This is a novel about a diverse group of characters who, from the footnotes, apostille and comment on Folke Ingo's text: his Spanish translator, his Finnish mother, a bureaucratic professor at the Ministry of Humanities, the parents of one of the artists locked in the garage, the president of the Club de Amigos de Gregorio Morán and the former director of a peculiar cinema club in Santa Coloma de Gramenet.
This is a novel about a series of psychophonies in which an infinity of historical figures appear, made up of rebels with a cause, murdered idealists, revolutionary leaders, guerrillas turned heads of state, hired coup plotters and dictators from around the world. From Agostinho Neto to Lumumba. From Franco to Mussolini.
This is a novel about political utopias and harsh realities where Klaus Barbie, Modiano, Gaddafi, Bing Crosby, ColaCao, Los Conguitos, Mauriat, Mauriac, Maurois, Detective Cannon, the CNT, Colonel Sanders of Kentucky fried chicken coexist, José Luis López Vázquez and Joseph Beuys, among many others.
This is a novel - as its title indicates - about the Chinese year of the Buffalo, which fell in 1973, but also in previous and subsequent years, such as 1961 and 1985.
This is a novel about… Dear reader, you better stop asking and dive right into these pages. The enjoyment, the laughter, the emotion, the amazement are guaranteed. Because this is a kind of total novel, written with inexhaustible inventiveness, pop airs and unbridled erudition. A hilarious and moving narration of narratives, politically radical and aesthetically subversive.
A book that represents a new step forward in the stupendous and unique literary career of Javier Pérez Andújar, a writer from mestizo Barcelona and its suburbs, and an unprejudiced vindicator of newsstand culture, popular cinema and high literature. Uniting all these ingredients a poetic feeling of reality, with The Year of the Buffalo has written a dazzling book about all of us.
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