Ins Cabrera, press photographer, returns to Buenos Aires after being injured while covering demonstrations against the G-20 in London. When he comes home, finds her world suddenly crumbles. His wife left him and has no more than the work in the newspaper, and the flood of memories that literally collapses on his head in the empty apartment. A past that he had ignored, and which now flies in the face. Repressed and forgotten everything comes irresistibly to return to the well and there point out the ruins: his life, his family, his city, his land.
Story of the circumstances of a character and at the same time accurate metaphor for the history of the countries that refuse to face its past, The Pit and the ruins is a risky exercise formal full of collages, interviews and texts that are introduced as a parallel commentary to a beautiful story and tragic. And above all, many beautiful images that have a core value, not by chance because the protagonist is a photographer in history. Observe, see what you do not see at first glance, is the radical proposal of this novel that it deals with the complexity of the gaze in humans. Experimentation is not here a mere game of artifice, but a tool that adds novel dimensions to a story that confronts what may or may not want to watch. This is a great novel, a literary work of enormous magnitude, and also a plea. ---------
Story of the circumstances of a character and at the same time accurate metaphor for the history of the countries that refuse to face its past, The Pit and the ruins is a risky exercise formal full of collages, interviews and texts that are introduced as a parallel commentary to a beautiful story and tragic. And above all, many beautiful images that have a core value, not by chance because the protagonist is a photographer in history. Observe, see what you do not see at first glance, is the radical proposal of this novel that it deals with the complexity of the gaze in humans. Experimentation is not here a mere game of artifice, but a tool that adds novel dimensions to a story that confronts what may or may not want to watch. This is a great novel, a literary work of enormous magnitude, and also a plea. ---------
Néspolo * Jimena (Buenos Aires, 1973). Poet, essayist, storyteller. Doctor of Letters (UBA). Directs Boca de Sapo, magazine art, literature and thought. He published four books of poetry: uncertainties (Simurg, 1999), captive Papers (Simurg, 2002), Mrs. Sh . (Alcyone, 2009), Girls (illustrated by Marta Vicente, AH, 2010). He published the test exercises modesty. Subject in the narrative of Antonio di Benedetto (AH 2004) and, with his brother Matías Néspolo, compiled The erotic tale. Writers of the new Argentina (AH, 2009).
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