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Summary: THE META-LITERATURE OF UNROOTING
Review: Andres Caicedo is a classic of contemporary Colombian literature.
Caicedo is perhaps one of the most bloody and formative modern writers associated with the (post)latin american BOOM of literature. Caicedo is a vivid example of the contradictions lived by all latin american countries: US colonies both mentally and economically. As a result of "LA VIOLENCIA", thousands of countrymen, escaping the official extermination campaign by the conservative party, gather up in the marginal slums of basically all Colombian cities. The opposition between the high class youth of the city of Cali, familiar with the Rolling Stones, Miami, the beatles, the English language, the Country Club,etc,
and the poor popular classes, where Richie Ray's Sonido Bestial is king, constitute a leit motiv. Maria del Carmen Huerta, the main character, a beautiful up town blond, suffers a process of "decadence" that takes her from an ellite world to the pleasures of life through a process of rejection of her own fake class values. The generational crisis of the youth which grew up with the revolutionary attempt in Paris in May of 1968,
the massacre in Mexico city, the student insurrection in Colombian public universities, the Cuban Revolution, the guerrilla priest Camilo Torres Restrepo, existentialism, the CIA sponsored military coup in Chile, the rise of the National Liberation Army, the revolutionary process in Nicaragua, the new freedom and a new conception of the world, constitute the vital background of the author.
Caicedo depicts the modern social crisis of Colombian society in a setting of the quotidian and the generational.
Sadly enough, 25 years after the suicide of the author, Colombian social structures have not changed at all, and the crisis is probably worse.
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Summary: THE META-LITERATURE OF UNROOTING
Review: It tells the story of Maria del Carmen Huerta, a high middle class girl, and her changes in society by taking new experiences. Since the beginning of the book the "caicedian language" (unique - full of horror apetite, strange and weird scenes, melancholy, drug situations, "teen responsability", street life, rock and salsa music, comedy full of tragedy and film addiction) will inmediately filter through the eye-pores and reach in the mind's fine pleasure for "new" literature.Andrés Caicedo was born in Cali, Colombia in 1951 and commited suicide at the same city in 1977 and though that living more than 25 years was a lack of sense. He was influenced by authors such as Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. He loved films, theatre and literature. Also the Rolling Stones. Young people are discovering this author as a "new" one. This means that he still influences in new readers and his style is unique.
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Summary: Excelente narrativa adolescente urbana
Review: No creo en la conexion falsa de Andres Caicedo con movimientos de izquierda ni politicos de ningun tinte.
Este libro evoca nostalgias de una Cali que se esta desvaneciendo y que no se ha podido rescatar, a traves de los ojos aun inocentes y al mismo tiempo crueles de los personajes adolescentes de sus novelas e historias. Es existencialismo sin densidades filosoficas.
Totalmente recomendado.
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Summary: Reflejo de la actualidad mundial
Review: Que buen libro nos dió Caicedo. En este se refleja no solo como en Cali, Colombia, America Latina, sino el mundo la salvajadas capitalista nos quita la esperanza de luchar por un mejor futuro. Es una buena paradoja de la realidad, y aunque fue escrito en los 70 se puede adaptar en gran medida a la realidad en que todos vivimos.
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Summary: Reflejo de la actualidad mundial
Review: Que buen libro nos dió Caicedo. En este se refleja no solo como en Cali, Colombia, America Latina, sino el mundo la salvajadas capitalista nos quita la esperanza de luchar por un mejor futuro. Es una buena paradoja de la realidad, y aunque fue escrito en los 70 se puede adaptar en gran medida a la realidad en que todos vivimos.
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Summary: Adres Caicedo's Best
Review: This Novella presents the best qualities of this Colombian author. His incredible style is displayed in this story of music, drugs, and decadence. A fundamental piece in any book collection!
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