La nueva música clásica

by José Agustín

Spanish

199 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

José Agustín Ramírez Gómez is a Mexican novelist.

Agustin's first novel, La Tumba (The Tomb) was the brief but provocative story of a Mexican upperclass teen, deemed indecent by the public but gathering praise from older writers. This and his most famous work, De Perfil (Profile view), a fast and detailed view of three days in the main character's life, show stylistic similarities to James Joyce's work, especially A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

He was considered a member of the so-called Onda literature, onda (wave) being slang for current and fashionable views in the eyes of young people.

A common technique in his work is mixing character's speech with narrative, without making any kind of distinction,(free indirect discourse). Thus the reader finds a long dialogue written in a single sentence,and is expected to realize which character is speaking as he reads the words. He also makes use of the stream of consciousness technique.

Reviews

[Antonio Cervantes · Rating 2 out of 5]

Solo se dedica a soltar nombres de bandas sin profundizar más allá. Fuchila.

[Arely · Rating 2 out of 5]

Como libro de critica musical deja mucho que desear, a todos los artistas de pendejos no los baja, excepto a su ex novia Angélica María. Como libro sobre la historia de la contracultura, del rock en un país que siempre ha reprimido a los jóvenes que no obedecen como borregos lo que los represores mandan, es indudablemente un buen texto.