Finalista del Premio Lambda en Ficción Gay 2024
Uno de los mejores libros de Amazon de 2024 hasta ahora
Galardonada con el National Book Award 2023, una novela deslumbrante que desentierra un episodio fundacional de la comunidad queer y explora los orígenes de su patologización.
«Se difuminan los límites de la Historia, la autobiografía y la ficción con el arte. Hermoso». -Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
En un remoto asilo en el desierto, un hombre joven acompaña a un moribundo. Han pasado diez años desde que coincidieran brevemente en una institución psiquiátrica. Ahora, el que está punto de morir le pide al otro que termine el proyecto al que ha dedicado su vida: la reconstrucción de la singular historia de Jan Gay. Esta investigadora, escritora y activista queer de principios del siglo XX dedicó su vida a documentar las vidas lesbianas y la cultura nudista en Estados Unidos y Europa, y sin embargo su trabajo fue el origen de un manual sobre la homosexualidad como perversión titulado Desviaciones sexuales: un estudio de los patrones homosexuales.
La lectura de las misteriosas páginas tachadas de dicho manual infame acompañará las vigilias diurnas que siguen a las calurosas noches de insomnio de aquellos dos hombres. En las horas de oscuridad mantendrán una larga conversación sobre sus vidas y las de Jan Gay y los sujetos que participaron en la truncada investigación.
En este atmosférico relato de amor, que es a la vez un collage documental y un homenaje a Pedro Páramo y El beso de la mujer araña, Justin Torres desentierra un episodio borrado de la historia estadounidense para explorar los orígenes de la patologización de la comunidad queer; una bella e imaginativa novela que ha sido merecedora del National Book Award.
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Amazon Best Books of 2024 So Far
Finalist of the Lambda Award in Gay Fiction 2024
Winner of the National Book Award
Winner of the California Book Award
Winner of Tournament of Books
Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book―Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns―and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried. The voices of these subjects have been filtered, muted, but it is possible to hear them from within and beyond the text, which, in Juan’s tattered volumes, has been redacted with black marker on nearly every page. As Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator recount for each other moments of joy and oblivion; they resurrect loves, lives, mothers, fathers, minor heroes. In telling their own stories and the story of the book, they resist the ravages of memory and time. The past is with us, beside us, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures?
A book about storytelling―its legacies, dangers, delights, and potential for change―and a bold exploration of form, art, and love, Justin Torres’s Blackouts uses fiction to see through the inventions of history and narrative. A marvel of creative imagination, it draws on testimony, photographs, illustrations, and a range of influences as it insists that we look long and steadily at what we have inherited and what we have made―a world full of ghostly shadows and flashing moments of truth. A reclamation of ransacked history, a celebration of defiance, and a transformative encounter, Blackouts mines the stories that have been kept from us and brings them into the light.
- ISBN10 8439744153
- ISBN13 9788439744153
- Publish Date 21 January 2025
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country ES
- Imprint Literatura Random House
- Edition Spanish Edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 336
- Language Spanish
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9788439744153